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LIST OF WAR CLAIMS 

INCLUDING 

A FEW EXCEPTIONAL CASES OF CLAIMS FOR CHURCHES; 
ALSO LIST OF OTHER CLAIMS TO WHICH OBJECTIONS 
APPEAR, SUCH AS LACHES, NO PROOF OF LOY- 
ALTY, INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AS TO 

FACTS, EVIDENCE OF PAYMENT fTj 

AND STATUTORY BARS ^3 / 

WITH 

A STATEMENT OF EACH CASE COMPILED FOR CONVENIENCE 

OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS 

IN CONNECTION WITH AN EXAMINATION 

OF H. R. 19115 



Printed for the use of the Committee on Claims 



WASHINGTON 
1912 







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LIST OF CLAIMANTS. 



Alabama. 

1. Huston L. Bell. 

2. Solomon L. Casey. 

3. J. H. Carter. 

4. Daniel Carroll. 

5. Leroy Campbell. 

6. Bethel G. Chandler. 

7. David Crow. 

8. Henry Davis. 

9. Caswell B. Derrick. 

10. James Watkins Fennell. 

11. Richard Garner. 

12. Peter H. Gold. 

13. William Cochrane. 

14. Samuel L. Gilbert. 

15. Green Guest. 

16. William T. Hamner. 

17. David B. Johnson. 

18. John T. Jones. 

19. Meredith King. 

20. John M. Lawson. 

21. Daniel Lyons. 

22. John W. McDaniel. 

23. John Mantel. 

24. Francis C. Martin. 

25. Glorvinia Mason and John O. Mason. 

26. Marcus M. Massengale. 

27. Thomas J. Mitchell. 

28. Margaret J. Parks. 

29. Jacob A. Paulk. 

30. Jonathan Paulk. 

31. Augustus N. Perkins. 

32. Absalom T. Phillips. 

33. George Orville Ragland. 

34. John P. Roberson. 

35. Oscar A. Rolfe. 

36. Samuel F. Ryan. 

37. James M. Thomason. 

38. Daniel Thompson. 

39. Moses K. ^Tieat. 

40. Thomas Williams. 

41. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 

Decatm-, Ala. 

42. First Baptist Church, Decatur, Ala. 

43. Medical College of Alabama, of Mo- 

bile. 

44. Trustees Methodist Episcopal Church 

South, of Oakbowery. 

Arkansas. 

45. John W. Bean. 

46. Joseph Bean. 

47. Chester Bethell. 

48. John Brewer. 



Arkansas — Continued . 

49. Isaac S. Conner. 

50. Asa Crow. 

51. John N. Curtis. 

52. Curtis and Austin. 

53. Samuel B. Derreberry. 

54. Laura J. Dills. 

55. Edmund F. Duke. 

56. William H. Engles. 

57. Isaac T. Eppler. 

58. Thaddeus N. Ferrell. 

59. Samuel H.Fitzhugh. 

60. John G. Freeman. 

61. John Gibson. 

62. Joel Harrell. 

63. Oliver P. Lister. 

64. Richard Higgins. 

65. Ira M. Lamb and Caroline Lamb. 

66. Marv Lefevre. 

67. John B. Luttrell. 

68. Ben Mahuren. 

69. Eleanor Maxwell. 

70. Hemy B. Mullins. 

71. Benjamin Pigman. 

72. Burns Polk, sr. 

73. Manurvia J. Ross. 

74. William B. Rutherford. 

75. William T. Stone. 

76. Sarah Winter. 

77. Mary E. Wycough. 

78. Joseph C. Zillah. 

California. 

79. David H. Hilderbrand. 

Colorado. 

80. Jesse W. Coleman. 

District op Columbia. 

81. Thomas Fahey. 

82. Gottlieb C. Grammer. 

83. Elizabeth Thomas. 

84. Charles H. ^^Tiipple. 



Florida. 



85 



Isadore von Balsan. 

86. Manette Marsons. 

87. Eliza Ann Turner. 

Georgia. 

88. July Anderson. 

89. ReddickAycock. 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 



Georgia — Continued. 

90. Mary A. Baggs Latham. 

91. Larkin Clark. 

92. William Coursey. 

93. George Creel. 

94. Levi Crow. 

95. Benjamin S. Dempsey. 

96. W. S. Fears. 

97. David Floyd. 

98. Plymouth Frazier, jr. 

99. Albert Godbee. 

100. Robert H. Green. 

101. Abraham Greeson. 

102. Archibald P. Griggs. 

103. Sarah Hays. 

104. Enoch Humphreys. 

105. Samuel Hunt. 

106. Patrick Jennings. 

107. Sabini Jones. 

108. Catherine Kelton. 

109. Solomon Landis. 

110. Elijah Pinson. 

111. William H. Rice. 

112. Jacob B. Russell. 

113. Melvin J. Smith. 

114. Aaron Turner. 

115. Millinton Waldrop. 

116. Carl Weiland. 

117. Masonic Hall Trustees, of Atlanta. 

118. St. Philip's Episcopal Church, At- 

lanta. 

Illinois. 

119. Thomas Foster. 

120. Fannie Pemberton. 
120^. E. Leonidas Smith. 

121. John J. Vincent. 

Indiana. 

122. Josiah Jennison. 

Kansas. 

123. Henry Bennett. 

124. Alfred W. Kent. 

Kentucky. 

125. Thomas N. Arnold. 

126. Kinchen Bell. 

127. William H. Boswell. 

128. Henry P. Bottom. 

129. Patrick Henry Bridgewater. 

130. Coleman T. Brown. 
181. Stephen E. Brown. 

132. Clement Calhoun. 

133. Mary R. Cammack. 

134. W. G. Chesher. 

135. Henry Cohen. 

136. Harmon Conley. 

137. Thomas D. Denny. 

138. Woodford Dunn. 

139. Emma F. Everman. . 

140. T. S. Grider. 

141. James M. Hall. 

142. StarkeyHall. 



Kentucky — Continued. 

143. Robert Hard wick. 

144. Thomas Heyser. 

145. Thomas R. Hill. 

146. John G. Hollowav. 

147. William B. Kelly. 

148. Harriet N. Lair. 

149. Alfred Leathers. 

150. Thomas K. Letcher. 

151. John Lindsey & Son. 

152. Robert B. McClelland. 

153. Daniel Mans. 

154. Catherine Morin. 

155. John H. Marshall. 

156. Samuel P. Martin. 

157. Rudolph Minton. 

158. Robert L. Moore. 

159. William A. Nallv. 

160. Samuel H. Pipes. 

161. William L. Poynter. 

162. Belle M. Robards. 

163. Richard M. Robinson. 

164. T. P. Salyer. 

165. David B. Sanders. 

166. Andrew J. Tranghber. 

167. John L. Walker. 

168. Elijah Warren. 

169. Eleanor G. WTiitney. 

170. Joseph Wilson. 

171. Presbyterian Chm-ch, Nicholasville, 

Ky. 

172. Trustees Cumberland Chm'ch, of 

Russellville, Ky. 

Louisiana. 

173. Vincent Avet. 

174. Remy Bagarry. 

175. Henry Bauman. 

176. Mary J. Barrow. 

177. H. B. Benjamin. 

178. Eugene Augustin Bourcy. 

179. Louisa Breaux. 

180. Lindsay L. Brown and Talton E. 

Brown. 

181. Felicite Neda Chi-etien. 

182. Charles L. Clark. 

183. J. Martin Compton. 

184. Jean Crouchet. 

185. Antoine Decuir, sr. 

186. Louis Delatte. 

187. Eloise Deslonde. 

188. Belot A. Donato. 

189. Clarisse Donato. 

190. Alfred Duplantier. 

191. George W. Dyson. 

192. Martin Guillory. 

193. Emile Honore. 

194. Matthew J. Jones. 

195. Florville Kerlegan. 

196. Rosamond Lacom' and Colin Lacom'. 

197. Adele Rixner Lanaux. 

198. Joseph Landry. 

199. Jean Baptiste Lazare. 

200. Alexander Lemelle. 

201. Euphemie Lemelle. 

202. Leon Lemelle. 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 



Louisiana — Continued. 

203. Rigobert Lemelle. 

204. Bosman Lyons. 

205. Laura P. Maddox. 

206. Louis Malveau. 

207. Ozam D. Metoyer. 

208. Theophile Metoyer. 

209. Alphonse Meuillon. 

210. Francois Meuillon. 

211. Lucien Meuillon. 

212. George Neck, sr. 

213. Gertrude Nolasco. 

214. Robert Norris. 

215. Caroline Pierront. 

216. William H. Osborne. 

217. Alfred C. Parham. 

218. Michael Rubi. 

219. John Schwartzenburg. 

220. Joseph T. Strother. 

221. Arthur Tavlor, surviving partner. 

222. Philip D. Quays. 

223. Richard Terrell. 

224. Marceline Tucker. 

225. Romain Verdun. 

226. Adolph Verret. 

227. Amelia Olivier Delille. 

228. Henry Von Hofen. 

229. Samuel N. White. 

230. William R. Wimbish. 

231. Plains Lodge of Free and Accepted 

Masons, East Baton Rouge. 

Maryland. 

232. Jacob R. Adams. 

233. Martin H. Avey. 

234. Mayor and City Council of Balti- 

more. 

235. Alfred C. Belt. 

236. A. Rosa Bevans. 

237. William E. Boteler. 

238. Richard T. Gott and Benjamin N. 

Gott. 

239. Hemy N. Harris. 

240. Harmon W. Hessen. 

241. Cornelia Jones. 

242. Jeremiah Kanode. 

243. Ignatius J. Langley. 

244. William P. Leaman. 

245. Richard T. Mitchell. 

246. Eli Moats. 

247. Augustine D. O'Leary. 

248. William D. Poole. 

249. Urias D. Ramsburg. 

250. Reverdy A. Rennoe. 

251. Hester Ann Ridout. 

252. Henry Show. 

253. George Snvder. 

254. George L. Stull. 

255. Elijah Thompson. 

256. Cornelius Vertz. 

257. Joseph Waltman. 

258. Lewis W. Williams. 

259. Zachariah L. Windsor. 

260. Frederick Wyand. 

261. Samuel C. Young. 

262. La Grange Lodge, Independent Order 

of Odd Fellows, of Boonsboro. 



Michigan. 

263. Myi'on Powers. 

Minnesota. 

264. Randolph M. Probsfield. 

Mississippi. 

265. N. M. Aldridge. 

266. Charles Baker. 

267. Leopold Bickart. 

268. Robert Bradley. 

269. D. H. Chamberlain. 

270. Royall Chambers. 

271. Sarah G. Clark. 

272. S. N. Clark. 

273. William L. Clearman. 

274. Margaret Davidson. 

275. Alfred W. Doak. 

276. Eliza A. Fielder, deceased, and Ben- 

jamin L. Fielder. 

277. Hardin P. Franklin. 

278. William Freeman. 

279. J. B. Fuller. 

280. Matilda B. Harvey. 

281. Benjamin Hawes. 

282. Julia B. Hancock. 

283. Hart well B. Hi] Hard. 

284. David R. Hubbard. 

285. William Hunt. 

286. Sarah T. Jarratt. 

287. Elizabeth Johnson. 

288. Vernon H. Johnston. 

289. Henry Jones. 

290. Kinchen W. King. 

291. Nancy Lay. 

292. Emma S. Lewis. 

293. Martha W. Lindley. 

294. Uriah Lunenburger. 

295. Harvey R. McRaven. 

296. Harriet Miles. 

297. Willis J. Moran. 

298. William O. Moseley. 

299. Marv Ann Nagle. 

300. Thomas J. Prico. 

301. Julia Quine. 

302. Robert Raiford. 

303. John Read. 

304. Maria A. Reinhardt. 

305. Melchisedec Robinson. 

306. Catherine J. Rutherford. 

307. Minor Saunders. 

308. Christian Schwartz and Leopold 

Bickart. 

309. Emanuel M. Solari. 

310. Charles 0. Spencer. 

311. Wiley W. Tipton. 

312. Elizabeth H. Welford. 

313. Joe] H. Willis. 

314. John Wood. 

315. Richard 0. Woodson. 

Missouri. 

316. Willis M. Allman. 

317. John M. Armstrong. 

318. William Baker. 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 



Missouri — Continued . 

319. Louis Benecke. 

320. E. W. Bishop. 

321. Joseph C. Black. 

322. David Blue. 

323. Sterling M. Boyse. 

324. Alexander Bradshaw. 

325. Isaac Brooks. 

326. O. H. Cogswell 

327. Anselm L. Davidson. 

328. John P. Duke. 

329. Hugh G. Glenn. 

330. County of Greene. 
330 J- . John Hammontree. 

331. Nathan E. Harrelson. 

332. Paschal Henshaw. 

333. Jackson County. 

334. Abram Jones. 

335. Benjamin Kirk. 

336. John W. Livesay. 

337. Philip Michael. 

338. Karoline Mulhaupt. 

339. Mrs. E. S. Munn. 

340. Levi S. North. 

341. William B. Payne. 

342. Phelps County. 

343. Daniel K. Ponder. 

344. Tillard and Sophia L. Ragan. 

345. William A. Ryan. 

346. Francis M. Sheppard. 

347. County Court, St. Genevieve County. 

348. Lowell G. Spaulding. 

349. John P. Bell, treasurer State Hos- 

pital No. 1, Fulton. 

350. Merit F. Thomas. 

351. John Turley. 

352. John Wilson. 

353. Solomon Young. 

Nevada. 

354. John Allman. 

355. John M. Forsyth. 

356. Frank J. McWorthy. 

357. Thomas Rodgers. 

358. James M. Thompson. 

New Mexico. 

359. Francisco de Baca. 

360. Edward H. Bergmann. 

New York. 

361. Benjamin Fenton, surviving part- 

ner. 

North Carolina. 

362. Francis Allison. 

363. Esau Berry. 

364. Raiford Brewington. 

365. William H. Bucklin. 

366. Enos Case. 

367. Isadore Cohen. 

368. Sylvester Dibble. 



North Carolina — Continued. 

369. William Howett. 

370. Harmon Modlin. 

371. David W. Morton. 

372. Levi T. Oglesbv. 

373. George W. Peny. 

374. William O. Robards. 

375. J. A. Reagan. 

376. Jacob West. 

Pennsylvania. 

377. Jacob Johnson. 

378. Augustus B. Miller. 

379. John Millingar. 

South Carolina. 

380. Angelo Buero. 

381. Nathan Gradick. 

382. James B. Howard. 

383. Board of Trustees of Public Schools 

of Darlington. 

Tennessee. 

384. Josiah Anthony. 

385. John J. Bailey. 

386. Alexander F. Beckham. 

387. John B. Baird. 

388. James Boro. 

389. Reese B. Brabson. 

390. Nancy N. B. Bridges. 

391. John C. Brooks. 

392. Octavia P. Brooks. 

393. John Brown. 

394. Mathew Brown. 

395. William Brown. 

396. Elizabeth Biu-ke. 

397. Thomas P. Butt. 

398. Nelson M. Buyers. 

399. James F. Calhoon. 

400. James M. Campbell. 

401. S. L. Carpenter. 

402. Felix Carter. 

403. Melvina A. Carter. 

404. Alexander Cawood. 

405. William H. Cherry. 

406. John Chitwood. 

407. J. W. Cloyd. 

408. Sylvannus Cobble. 

409. Martha C. Cole. 

410. Andrew A. Colter. 

411. Elam C. Cooper. 

412. John Coppinger. 

413. Daniel Covington. 

414. William Crutchfield. 

415. Rebecca Cummings. 

416. Elvina Cunnyngham. 

417. Luckett Davis. " 

418. Harriet Day. 

419. William H. Dawson. 

420. Robert A. Dickson. 

421. Lydia Dillard. 

422. John Doliertv- 

423. Adaline Elliott. 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 



Tennessee — Continued. 

424. Thomas A. Elliott. 

425. Warham Easley. 

426. Edward W. Eggleston. 

427. Joseph Ewing. 

428. Lemuel Farmer. 

429. Archie B. Forbes. 

430. Rial Foster. 

431. Hiram Gailey. 

432. Z. H. German. 

433. Samuel L. Gilson. 

434. Minna H. Glassie. 

435. George B. Harlan. 

436. Daniel B. Harold. 

437. Thomas C Hawley. 

438. John Havnes. 

439. F. S. Heiskell. 

440. John Henson. 

441. John A. Herrod. 

442. John W. Hester. 

443. Charles W. Hewgley. 

444. John R. Hickman. 

445. Henry E. Hilliard. 

446. Catherine Hopson. 

447. Thomas Hord. 

448. Brice M. Hughes. 

449. Hugh C. Jackson. 

450. David Jameson. 

451. Henry Johnson. 

452. Mrs. Pettie Light Johnston and Mrs. 

Scrappy Light Bradshaw. 

453. Nathaniel W. Jones. 

454. Henry J. Kinzel. 

455. John Krider. 

456. William H. Landrum. 

457. Annis Lawrence. 

458. Joe. Lester. 

459. Abner D. Lewis. 

460. Elizabeth Lewis. 

461. Benjamin Lillard. 

462. Charity M. Locke. 

463. James G. Logan. 

464. John McClarin. 

465. George W. McGrew. 

466. David V. Marney. 

467. William M. Mayfield. 

468. James E. Meacham. 

469. Patrick G. Meath. 

470. City of Memphis. 

471. James P. Moore. 

472. Henry M. Neely. 

473. Samuel B. Nelson. 

474. B. B. Neville. 

475. Oswell P. Newby. 

476. W. W. Newhouse. 

477. John North. 

478. Charles N. Ordway. 

479. Overton Hotel Co. 

480. Alexander M. Owen. 

481. Marv Parker. 

482. Heiily Patton. 

483. John R. Pearson. 

484. Henry Pepper and Elizabeth H. 

Cleveland. 

485. Octavia R. Polk. 

486. Nimrod Porter. 

487. William Raines. 



Tennessee — Continued. 

488. James S. Read. 

489. Lewellen Rhodes. 

490. Margaret Robertson. 

491. Jane Ehzabeth Rodes. 

492. James W. Roulston. 

493. Thomas D. Ruffin. 

494. W. J. Sawyers. 

495. Julia Moore Selden. 

496. W. W. Sharp. 

497. John Smith. 

498. Margaret E. Smith. 

499. Wan-en F. Speed. 

500. Sallie B. Stamper. 

501. Mark Stone. 

502. M. T. Swick. 

503. Mary F. Swindell. 

504. Isaac Tipton. 

505. George Todd. 

506. J. J. Todd. 

507. Alpheus Truett. 

508. Wilham L. Vance. 

509. Ezekiah W. Walker. 

510. Jesse A. Wallace. 

511. Marv E. Walters. 

512. A. J. Wiglesworth. 

513. Joseph R. Williams. 

514. George T. Wilson. 

515. William S. Wilson. 

516. Nancy Wright. 

517. Cleveland Masonic Lodge. 

518. Clifton Lodge, No. 173, Free and 

Accepted Masons, of Clifton. 

519. Franklin Lodge, No. 4, Independent 

Order of Odd Fellows. 

520. Grand Lodge. Independent Order of 

Odd Fellows, State of Tennessee. 

521. Harpeth Academy, FrankUn. 

522. Hiram Lodge, No. 7, Free and Ac- 

cepted Masons, of Franklin. 

523. Hiwassee Lodge, No. 188. of Calhoun. 

524. Howard Lodge, No. 13, Independent 

Order of Odd Fellows, of Gallatin. 

525. Hum))oldt Female College, G. S. 

Lannom, receiver of. 

526. Methodist Episcopal Church, Triune. 

Texas. 

527. Gertrude O'Bannon. 

528. Mary A. Shaw. 

529. Robert M. WilHams. 

Virginia. 

530. Alfred Anderson. 

531. Mary Anderson. 

532. Hannah T. Cromwell. 
John H. Baker. 
Robert N. Blake. 
Theodoric Bland. 
Lemuel J. Bowden. 
Francis N. Brabham. 
John B. Brown. 
William Burley. 



533. 
5.34. 
535. 
536. 
537. 
538. 
539. 
540. 
541. 



Caroline Carter. 
Francis F. Curtis. 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 



Virginia — Continued . 

542. John C. Davis. 

543. Edward W. Donnelly. 

544. Lewis Ellison. 

545. Robert Einbrey. 

546. Henry Fitzhugh. 

547. John Flower. 

548. Noah Foltz. 

549. Capt. Nathaniel Fox. 

550. Joseph E. Funkhouser. 

551. Mary E. Gough. 

552. Isaac Haynes. 

553. Mary Lutholtz. 

554. John McKimmy. 

555. Henry McWilliains. 

556. Le\vis W. Mann. 

557. Samuel Marsh. 

558. Alexander Myers. 

559. Elijah P. Myers. 

560. John S. Pendleton. 

561. Alexander Poland. 

562. Samuel K. Proctor. 

563. John Poland. 

564. Eliza J. Ricketts. 

565. Joseph W. Roberson. 

566. Felix Richards. 

567. Lewis A. Sherwood. 

568. Sarah G. Smith. 

569. James G. Taliaferro. 

570. John R. Taylor and Charles F. 

Taylor. 

571. Robert Waters. 

572. Edward O. Watkins. 

573. William G. Webber. 

574. Joshua White. 

575. Joseph Williams. 

576. Michael Wine. 

577. Fairfax Lodge No. 43, Ancient Free 

and Accepted Masons, of Cul- 
peper. 

578. Trustees of Fredricksburg Lodge 

No. 4. 



Vi RGiNiA — Continued . 

579. Trustees of the Presbyterian Church, 

McDowell, Highland County. 

580. Trustees of Salem Baptist Church, 

Clarke County. 

West Virginia. 

581. William H. Bodkin. 

582. Mary E. Buckey. 

583. John Cook. 

584. William Corrick. 

585. George W. Craig. 

586. Jacob Crouch. 

587. George Dickson. 

588. Samuel Fitz. 

589. Jacob J. Foreman. 

590. George Font. 

591. Lydia A. Hockensmith. 

592. Jacob W. Hudson. 

593. John McH. Kelly and Allie V. 

Kelly. 

594. Joseph Laudermilk. 

595. Catharine S. Lucas. 

596. Oliver Milbourn. 

597. Sarah Miller. 

598. James W. Myers. 

599. Alfred O'Bannon. 

600. F. A. Roeder. 

601. John Sharp. 

602. Maria Shirley. 

603. Joseph C. Smith. 

604. James M. Stephenson. 

605. David Tuckwiller and Sarah Bettie 

Wilson. 

606. Trustees Methodist Episcopal 

Church South, of Charles Town. 

607. Trustees of the Presbyterian Church 

of Huttonsville. 

608. Caledonia Lodge, No. 4, Independ- 

ent Order of Odd Fellows, Shep- 
herd stown. 



Alabama. 

1. Huston L. Bell. Referred in 1909; loyalty in 1911 by reason of 
''tender years"; property taken " during the war"; slept for 44 years; 
laches. (S. 215, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

2. Solomon L. Casey. Referred in 1906; loyalty by reason of 
"tender years" in 1909; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim- 
ant's decedent was not loyal; slept for 42 years; laches. (H. 364, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

3. J. H. Carter. Referred in 1908; loyalty found 1909; stores 
and supplies taken in 1862-63; Southern Claim's Commission rejected 
claim; not satisfied of loyalty; slept 45 years; laches. (H. 381, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

4. Daniel Carroll. Referred 1907; loyal 1908; stores and supplies 
taken 1865; slept 42 years; laches. (H. 813, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

5. Leroy Campbell. Referred 1889; loyal in 1906; 7 years in 
Court of Claims; stores and supplies taken 1863-64; slept 25 years 
before reference to Court of Claims; laches. (No. 699, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 9 

6. Bethel G. Chandler. Referred 1907; loyalty 1910; stores and 
supplies taken 'Murmg the war"; slept 42 years; laches. (S. 617, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

7. David Crow. Referred 1906; loyalty 1910; stores and sup- 
plies taken 1865; slept 41 years; laches. (H. 436, 62d Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

8. Henry Davis. Referred 1895; loyalty 1908 (13 years later); 
stores and supplies taken 1863-64; slept for 31 years before reference; 
laches. (H. 680, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

9. Caswell B. Derrick. Referred in 1907; loyalty 1910; stores and 
supplies taken "during the war"; slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 
434, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

10. James Watkins Fennell. Referred in 1905; loyalty of original 
owner, who died in January, 1864, found by court, 1907; stores and 
supplies taken in November, 1864, as the property of a son, Capt. 
J. W. Fennell, Confederate Army; three sons and one daughter 
found disloyal; the other children, who are now claimants, were of 
''tender years" and claim for abandoned property was barred by act 
of 1863 ;_ slept for 41 years; laches. (S. 355, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

11. Richard Garner. Referred 1906; loyalty 1907; stores and 
supplies taken 1863-1865; slept 44 years; laches. (H. 934, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

12. Peter H. Gold. Referred 1907; loyalty in 1910; stores and 
supplies taken 1864; slept for 46 years; laches. (S. 615, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

13. William Cochrane. Referred 1897; loyalty not proven; stores 
and supplies taken 1865; slept for 37 years; laches. (S. 67, 56th 
Cong.. 2d sess.) 

14.'Wilham L.Gilbert. Referred 1907; loyalty 1912; stores and 
supplies taken 1864; slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 248, 62d Cong., 
2d sess.) 

15. Green Guest. Referred 1907; loyalty 1910; stores and sup- 
plies taken "during the war"; slept 45 years; laches. (S. 597, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

16. Wilham T. Hamner. Referred 1888; loyalty found 1905 (17 
years after reference); stores and supplies taken 1865; slept for 25 
years before reference, and 17 years after reference; laches. (H. 
405, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

17. David B. Johnson. Referred 1889; loyalty found 1904 (15 
years later) ; stores and supplies taken "during the war " ; rejected by 
Southern Claims Commission because proof insufficient; slept 25 
years before reference and lay dormant in Court of Claims for 15 
years; laches. (H. 428, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

18. John T. Jones. Referred 1905; loyalty by reason of "tender 
years" of minor children, but not of John T. Jones or wife, who were 
not found loyal; stores and supplies taken "during the war" ; slept for 
40 years; laches. (S. 136, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

19. Meredith King. Referred 1901; loyalty 1902; stores and sup- 
plies taken 1863-64; slept 38 years; laches. (H. 380, 59th Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

20. John M. Lawson. Referred 1900; loyalty 1906; stores and 
supplies taken 1864; Southern Claims Commission found that owner 
took benefit of bankruptcy law, which deprived him of title and his 



10 LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 

claim was barred; slept 36 years; laches. (H. 205, 60tli Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

21. Daniel Lyons. Referred in 1908; loyalty 1909; stores and 
supplies taken 1863-64; rejected by Southern Claims Commission 
because proofs were insufficient; slept 44 years; laches. (H. 1343, 
61st Cong., 3d sess.) 

22. John W. McDaniel. Referred 1890; loyalty 1906, after sleeping 
in Court of Claims 16 years without prosecution; stores and supplies 
taken 1864-65; Southern Claims Commission rejected this claim be- 
cause not satisfied of claimant's loyalty; slept 25 years before refer- 
ence; laches. (H. 206, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

23. John Mantel. Referred in 1903; loyalty 1904; stores and sup- 
plies taken 1865; slept 38 years; laches. (S. 185, 58th Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

24. Francis C. Martin. Referred in 1888; loyalty 1905 (17 years 
later), during which period the claim slumbered in Court of Claims; 
stores and supplies taken 1862; was rejected by Southern Claims 
Commission; laches. (H. 550, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

25. Glorvinia Mason and John O. Mason. Referred in 1889; 
loyalty of John O. Mason, 1903, of Glorvinia Mason, 1905; slept in 
Court of Claims for want of prosecution 14 years; not presented to 
Southern Claims Commission; stores and supplies taken ''during the 
war"; laches. (H. 500, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

26. Marcus M. Massengale. Referred in 1891 under .Bowman Act; 
nothing done; submitted to Southern Claims Commission under 
act of 1871, but abandoned; no proofs submitted; referred in, 1908 
under Tucker Act; lo3^altY in 1909; slept for 43 vears; laches. (S. 
183, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) ' 

27. Thomas J. Mitchell. Referred in 1889; loyalty found in 1902 
(13 years later), during which 13 years claim slumbered in Courf^ 
Claims for want of prosecution; stores and supplies taken in 1863-64; 
slept for 25 years before reference to Court of Claims; laches. (H. 
33, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

28. Margaret J. Parks. Referred in 1900; loyalty in 1904; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war"; slept more than 35 years; 
laches. (S. Doc. 13, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

29. Jacob A. Paulk. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken ''during the war"; slept 42 vears; laches. 
(S. 568, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

30. Jonathan Paulk. Referred in 1904; loyalty in 1910; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war"; slept 42 years; laches. (S. 
568, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

31. Augustus N. Perkins. Referred in 1901; loyalty in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken 1865; never presented to anv department 
until 1904; slept 36 years; laches. (S. 224, 58th Cong.,^2d sess.) 

32. Absalom T. Phillips. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 
1907; stores and supplies taken 1864; presented to- Southern Claims 
Commission, but unable to make proof and establish loyalty; slept 
42 years. (H. ,54, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

33. George Orville Ragland. Referred in 1907; loyalty 1910; 
stores and supplies taken 1863; slept 44 years; laches. (S. 299, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

34. John P. Roberson. Referred in 1903; loyalty 1906; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war," but not shown to have been 



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taken by authority; slept 38 years; laches. (H. 308, 59th Cong.^ 
2d sess.) 

35. Oscar A. Rolfe. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1904 (16 
years later); slumbered in Court of Claims without prosecution 16 
years; stores and supplies taken 1862-1864; slept for 24 years before 
reference, and 16 years in Court of Claims; laches. (H. 228, 59tli 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

36. Samuel F. Ryan. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1905, 
based on ' ' tender years ' ' ; stores and supplies taken ' ' during the war " ; 
Southern Claims Commission rejected claim because father of present 
claimant was disloyal. Present claimant's father then claimed to 
own all the property in question; slept for 30 years; laches. (S. 103, 
58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

37. James M. Thomason. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1904, 
after slumbering 16 years in Court of Claims A\'ithout prosecution. 
Stores and supplies taken 1863 ; slept for 25 years before reference and 
16 years in Court of Claims; laches. (H. 849, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

38. Daniel Thompson. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1908 
(6 years later, during which time it slept in Court of Claims without 
prosecution); stores and supplies taken "during the war''; slept for 
37 years; laches. (H. 794, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

39. Moses K. Wheat, Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1907 (19 
years later); slept without being prosecuted in Court of Claims for 19 
years; stores and supplies taken 1865; not presented to any depart- 
ment for 25 years; laches. (H. 587, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

40. Thomas Wilhams. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken 1863-1865; slept for 41 years; laches. (H. 
1200, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

41 . Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Decatur. Referred in 1903 ; 
loy^alty found in 1907; the building was taken down in 1864 because 
of its location in front of United States forts at the town of Decatur. 
The act of removing the building was an act of militar}- necessity, in 
order to clear the view in front of the forts. The bricks were used 
for military purposes. The finding of the court does not givo the 
value of the material, l)ut fixes the value of the building at $6,000. 
(S. 229,_59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

42. First Baptist Church, Decatur. This church was destroyed in 
order to clear the range of the guns and was an act of military neces- 
sity in battle. The material was used by the Army, but the value 
of the material is not found; the court finds the value of the building 
to be $2,200. (S. 227, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

43. Medical College of Alabama, Mobile. Buildings were used by 
United States Army for hospital from April, 1865, to May 29, 1866, 
for which rent was paid at the rate of $150 per month. This claim 
is for rent for one year and tliree months, during which time build- 
ings were used by Freedmen's Bureau. Quartermaster General 
rejected this claim in 1867 and it slept from that time until the Fifty- 
ninth Congress; laches. (S. 341, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

44. Trustees Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Oakbowery. 
The church building was destroyed ''by fire for use of the Army"; 
this indicates that the destruction was an act of military necessity. 
(S. 443, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 



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Arkansas. 

45. John W. Bean. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1904; stores 
and supplies taken ''during the war"; slept for 40 years; nothing in 
the findings shows that it was ever presented prior to 1904; laches. 
(H. 351, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

46. Joseph Bean. Referred in 1891; found loyal in 1904, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims 13 years without any action; stores and 
supplies taken 1864, slept 36 years before reference and 13 years 
without a motion after reference; laches. (H. 488, 60th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

47. Chester Bethell. Referred in 1908; found loyal in 1910; stores 
and supplies taken in 1864; never presented to any department; slept 
44 years; laches. (H. 706, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

48. John Brewer. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1904, 16 years 
later, during which period it slept in Court of Claims without any 
action being taken; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; 
slept 25 years before reference; never presented to the Government; 
slept 16 years without a move bv claimant in Court of Claims; laches. 
(H. 307, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

49. Isaac S. Conner. Referred in 1886; loyalty found in 1909, 20 
years after reference, during which time it slept in Court of Claims 
without a move on the part of claimant; stores and supphes taken 
1862; never presented to any department; slept 24 years before 
reference and 26 years in Court of Claims before move for trial; laches. 
(H. 448, 62d Coiig., 2d sess.) 

50. Asa Crow. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1908, after five 
vears sleeping in Court of Claims; stores and supplies taken in 
1863-64; widow of deceased owner presented tliis claim to Southern 
Claims Commission, but could not prove title ; claim referred under 
the Bowman Act and abandoned by claimant; referred under Tucker 
Act in 1903; neglected over 40 years; laches. (S. 642, 60th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

51. John N. Curtis. Referred in 1890; loyal t}:^ found in 1905, after 
15 years' slumber in Court of Claims without a move by claimant; 
stores and supplies taken 1862; claim presented to Southern Claims 
Commission, but failed because claimant was unable to prove it; 
slept 38 years before reference, 15 years in Court of Claims before 
loyalty was proven, and 19 years in Court of Claims before it was 
moved for trial; laches. (H. 231, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

52. Curtis and Austin. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in J905, 
after claim had slept in Court of Claims 15 years; stores and supplies 
taken in 1862; was presented to Southern Claims Commission, but 
claimants were unable to prove it; not brought to trial in Court of 
Claims until 1909 (19 years after reference); slept 28 years before 
reference; laches. (H. 245, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

53. Samuel B. Derreberry. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 
1902, 14 years after reference; moved for trial 1905, 17 years after 
reference; stores and supplies taken 1862; never presented to any 
department; slept 26 years before reference and in Court of Claims 19 
years before claimant moved for trial; laches. (H. 504, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

54. Laura J. Dills. Referred in 1905; loyalty found by reason of 
"tender years"; stores and supplies taken 1862; never presented to 
an3^ department; slept 43 years; laches. (S. 329, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 



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55. Edmund F. Duke. Referred in 1 894 ; lo3^alty found in 1 906, after 
sleeping in C^ourt of Claims 12 years without a move; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1863; slept 41 j^ears before reference; never presented 
to anv department; laches. (H. 512, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

56."'WiUiam H. Engles. Referred in 1894; loyalty found in 1906 
(12 years later), during which time it slept in Court of Claims; stores 
and supplies taken in 1863; presented to no department; slept 31 
years before reference; laches. (H. 701, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

57. Isaac T.Eppler. Referredin 1887; loyalty found in 1905; stores 
and supplies taken in 1865; slept in Court of Claims before loyalty 
was found 8 years and before it was moved for trial 9 years; slept 
32 years before reference; never presented to any department; 
laches. (H. 352, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

58. Thaddeus N. Ferrell. Referred in 1902, loyalty found in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-1864; never presented to any 
department; slept 38 years; laches. (S. 344. 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

59. Samuel H. Fitzhugh. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910 
because of "tender years"; father of claimant died during the war 
and was the owner of the propert}^ taken at the time of his death. 
No administrator was appointed until after the war; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1863-64; never presented to any of the departments; 
slept 43 years; laches. (H. 797, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

60. John G. Freeman. Referred in 1911; loyalty found in 1911; 
stores and supplies taken 1863-64; attempted to prove claim before 
Southern Claims Commission under act of 1871, but failed; in 1874 
claimant tried to amend claim before Southern Claims Commission, 
when the claim was rejected because the proof of loyalty was not 
satisfactory; claim referred under the Bowman Act, 1908, and loy- 
alty found, but no proof made; claim slept 47 years, except as above; 
laches. (S. 216, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

61. John Gibson. Referredin 1909; loyalty found in 1911; stores 
and supplies taken 1864; claim presented to Southern Claims Commis- 
sion and rejected because loyalty of original claimant was not satis- 
factorilv established; slept 45 years with above exception; laches. 
(H. 366", 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

62. Joel Harrell. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1907; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war"; not presented to any depart- 
ment; slept 42 vears; laches. (H. 795, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

63. Oliver P. Lister. Referred in 1892 ; loyalty found in 1898, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims without move; not brought on for trial 
until 1905, after it had slept in Court of Claims for 13 years; stores 
and supplies taken in 1863; claim never presented to any department; 
slept before reference 29 years; laches. (H. 723, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

64. Richard Higgins. Referred in 1897. Richard Higgins died 
in 1862; his widow, Ehzabeth B. Higgins, was unable to establish her 
loyalty in Court of Claims, and the court does not find that Richard 
Higgins was loyal. The claimants were infants of "tender years," 
and on that account only were found loyal in 1901; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1862; claim was not presented to Southern Claims 
Commission and is barred by the act of 1871; claim for cotton could 
not be proven; slept 35 years before reference; laches. (S. 164, 56th 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

65. Ira M. Lamb and Caroline Lamb. Referred in 1890; in 1906 
court found that Caroline Lamb was not loyal, but that Ira M, Lamb, 



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jr., was loyal. Original claimant, who died in 1862, was the owner 
of the property taken at the time of his death; part of it was taken 
before his death, and he is not shown to have been loyal; stores and 
supplies taken ''during the war"; does not appear to have been pre- 
sented to any department before reference; slept over 40 years; 
laches. (H. 844, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

60. Mary Lefevre. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1904; stores 
and supplies taken in 1863; not shown to have been presented to any 
department; slept 41 years; laches. (H. 350, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

67. John B. Luttrell. Referred in 1902; found loyal in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim not presented to any depart- 
ment; slept 38 years; laches. (H. 353, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

68. Ben Mahuren. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken ''during the war"; claim was never pre- 
sented to any department; slept 45 years; laches. (S. 566, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

69. Eleanor Maxwell. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1908, 
20 years after reference, during which time the claim slept in the 
Court of Claims without a move; stores and supplies taken in 1864; 
claim never presented to any department; slept before reference 24 
years and in Court of Claims 20 years; laches. (H. 1316, 60th Cong., 
-2d sess.) 

70. Henr;y B. Mullins. Referred in 1907; Alfred Mullins, original 
owner, died in 1860; left widow and five children, including Henry B. 
Mullins; no administrator appointed until after the war; widow not 
shown to be loyal; three of the five children — Sue, Nancy, and Henry 
B. — found loyal by reason of "tender years"; stores and supplies 
taken in 1862-63; claim was not presented to Southern Claims Com- 
mission; barred under act of 1871; slept 45 years; laches. (S. 545, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

71. Benjamin Pigman. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department; slept at least 37 years; laches. (S. 350, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

72. Burns Polk, sr. Referred in 1890 ; loyalty found m 1890 ; stores 
and supplies taken in 1862; never presented to any department; slept 
38 years; laches. (H. 713, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

73. Manurvia J. Ross. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department; slept about 40 years; laches. (H. 354, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

74. Wilham B. Rutherford. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1904; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; never pre- 
sented to any department; slept about 40 years; laches. (H. 349, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

75. Wilham T. Stone. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1905, 
after sleeping for 18 years in Court of Claims without a move; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented to any 
department; slept over 20 years before reference and 18 years after 
reference; laches. (H. 364, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

76. Sarah Winter. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any 
department; slept 42 years; laches. (S. 199, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 



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77. Mary E. Wycoiigh. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-1864; claim presented to South- 
ern Claims Commission in 1872, and was rejected because claimant 
could not establish her loyalty; bills were presented to Congress in 
1886-1888, but notliing clone; loyalty in 1909 was established by 
daughter of deceased; claim slept 45 years before reference to 
Court of Claims; laches. ^S. 220, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

78. Joseph C. Zillah. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-63; claim not presented to any 

■department; slept 43 years; laches. (H. 695, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

California. 

79. David H. Hilderbrand. Referred under Bowman Act, 1884; 
loyalty found in 1885; under this reference the Court of Claims 
found that the three horses and two mules were taken during the war, 
but it was not shown that they were taken by military authority 
or used by the Government; no receipt was given, and showing was 
insufhcient; referred again in 1906 without further proceedings; 
fuiding made in 1906 that the property was taken during the w^r by 
military forces of the United States for use of the Army by proper 
authority; claim was never presented to the Quartermaster General 
or Southern Claims Commission, and is barred bv the act of 1871; 
laches. (H. 841, 59th Cong., 1st sess.; H. Rept.^ 2326, 49th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

Colorado. 

80. Jesse W. Coleman. Referred in 1901: loyalty found in 1904; 
claimant was squatter near Pueblo; in 1864 Indians in the neighbor- 
hood were on the warpath; claimant enlisted in Third Colorado Cav- 
alry Volunteers; during his absence in the service stores and supplies, 
for which claim is made, were taken, but it is not shown who took same; 
claim never presented to any department; slept 37 vears: laches. 
(H. 302, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

District of Columbia. 

81. Thomas Fahey. Referred in 1910; loyalty found in 1911; 
claimant owned a leasehold estate to 15 acres of land in Alexandria 
County, Va., upon which he had placed various buildings. The 
United States military authorities under proper authority took pos- 
session of the buildings and premises in 1861 and excluded claimant 
and occupied the same to the end of the war; the improvements were 
torn down and materials used by the Army; claim presented to 
Southern Claims Commission under act of 1871, but rejected for want 
of jurisdiction; was presented in 1865 for rent and value of buildings 
and rejected for want of jurisdiction; slept from that time to Sixty- 
first Congress; laches. (H. 325, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

82. Gottheb C. Grammer. Referred in 1900; found loyal in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim never presented to any de- 
partment; slept 38 years; laches. (S. 303, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

83. EUzabeth Thomas. Referred in 1902; loyalty found m 1904; 
stores and supplies, use and occupation, taken in 1861-1863. Build- 
ings were torn down and used in the erection of Fort Stevens; military 



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necessity, and so found by the court. Court finds that the cLiim for 
suppHes was not presented to the Commissioner of Chxims under act 
of 1871 and is barred. Slept for 40 years; laches. (S. 53, 58th Cong., 
3d sess.) 

84. Charles H. Whipple. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1910: 
claimant was a paymaster m United States Army; furnished his own 
horse, saddle, bridle, blanket, and halter in 1888 at Leavenworth, 
Kans., and the same were burned while kept in a livery stable at 
Leavenworth when claimant was on duty in 1888 ; claim was presented 
to the War Department and certified to be within the act of March 3, 
1885, allowing compensation for property furnished by officers and 
reasonably necessary and useful in the performance of their duties 
and destroyed without their negligence; similar decision rendered 
by the Secretary of War in 1896; claim was disallowed by the Auditor 
of the War Department. (H. 928, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

Florida. 

85. Isadore von Balsan. Referred in 1886 under Bowman Act 
and disallowed in 1888 because of lack of proof; referred again in 
1902 under same act and rejected because the proof did not show 
claimant to be the owner; referred under the Tucker Act in 1906; 
loyalty found in 1908; stores and supplies taken in 1864-65; pre- 
sented to Commissioner of Claims in 1872 and disallowed; failed 
twice in Court of Claims under Bowman Act; this should have been 
an effective estoppel and finding is made under a reference made as 
late as 1906, over 41 years after the property was taken, and should 
not be made the basis of an appropriation. (S. 622, 60th Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

86. Manette Marsons. Referred in 1899; loyalty found in 1903, 
four years later; stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim never pre- 
sented to any department; slept 37 years; laches. (H. 38, 58th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

87. Eliza Ann Turner. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1908, 
four years later; stores and supplies taken in 1864, also dwelling and 
outhouses burned; no claim was ever presented to any department; 
slept for 40 years; laches. (S. 254, 60th Cong., 1st. sess.) 

Georgia. 

88. July Anderson. Referred in 1906 ; loyalty found in 1906 ; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war"; claim presented to Southern 
Claims Commission and claimant failed in proof of title and o^vner- 
ship both. Slept for 40 years with above exception; laches. (H. 
700, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

89. Reddick Aycock. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1903, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims for 15 j^ears without motion; brought to 
trial in 1905, after sleeping 17 years ; stores and supplies taken in 1864 ; 
claim never presented to any department; slept before reference 
nearly 25 years, and after reference 15 years; laches. (H. 501, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

90. Mary A. Baggs Latham. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 
1911, based entirely upon "tender years" of claimant; William A. 
Baggs, the father, died in 1864 ; the property belonged to his estate ; he 



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is not shown to have been loyal, and the claim made by the widow, 
Mary A. Baggs, was rejected b}- the Southern Claims Commission on 
account of her disloyalt}^; stores and supplies taken in 1865; slept 
for 44 years; laches. (S. 242, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

91. Larkin Clark. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war"; Southern Claims Commission 
on July 4, 1871, rejected this claim because of failure to prove loyalty; 
with that exception the claim slept for over 40 vears; laches. (H. 
691, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

92. Wilham'Coursey. Referred in 1888; loyalty found m 1909, 21 
years after reference, during which period the claim slept in Court of 
Claims without a move. Stores and supphes taken during the Civil 
War; William Coursey died after the property was taken; his two 
sons, Daniel Coursey and Lloyd Coursey, presented separate claims 
to the Southern Claims Commission, each for an undivided one-half; 
Lloyd Coursey was allowed his half and it was paid; the Southern 
Claims Commission rejected the claim of Daniel Coursey because of 
his disloyalty; after the failure of Daniel Coursey, because of his dis- 
loyalty, to collect his half, and without any further proof as to his 
loyalty, and as late as 1908 Mrs. M. E. Arrowood is appointed admin- 
istratrix of William Course}^ and seeks to recover the one-half interest 
rejected on account of the disloyalty of Daniel Coursey; such a claim 
ought not to be considered for one moment; slept for 43 years. (H. 
38, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

93. George Creel. Referred in 1888 ; loyaltyfound in 1909 (21 years 
later), during v/hich period the claim peacefully reposed in the bosom 
of the Court of Claims without a motion; stores and supphes taken 
"during the war"; claim was presented to the Southern Claims Com- 
mission under act of 1871 and disallowed because not convinced of 
claimant's loyalty; slept during the remainder of the time; laches. 
(H. 387, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

94. Levi Crow. Referred in 1904 ; loyalty found in 1905 ; stores and 
supplies taken in 1864; no claim ever presented to any department; 
slept for 40 years; laches. (H. 200, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

95. Benjamin S. Dempsey. Referred in 1896 ; loyalty found in 1906, 
10 years after reference, during which time the claim slept in the Court 
of Claims without a motion; was not heard on its merits until 1908, 
20 years after its reference; stores and supplies taken in 1864; slept 
32 years before reference, and after reference, 12 years; laches. (H. 
894, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

96. W.S. Fears. Referred in 1906, loyalty found in 1908; stores and 
supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any department; 
slept 42 years; laches. (H. 668, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

97. David Floyd. Referred in 1906; loyalty found m 1909; stores 
and supplies taken in 1864; rejected by the Southern Claims Commis- 
sion, because loyalty found insufficient; slept 42 years with above 
exception; laches. (H. 530, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

98. Plymouth Frazier, jr. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any 
department; slept 42 years. (H. 748, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

99. Albert Godbee. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1905 (17 
years after reference); brought on for trial in 1908, 20 years after 
reference, during which time claim slept in the Court of Claims with- 
out a move; stores and supplies taken in 1864; rejected by Southern 

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Claims Commission under act ol' 1871 because proof did not show tliat 
claimant was loyal; slept 24 vears before reference and slept in 
Court of Claims 20 years; laches. (H. 696, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

100. Robert H. Green. Referred in 1S98; loyalty found in 1903, 
.5 years afterwards; brought on for trial in 1906, 8 years after refer- 
ence; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to 
any department; slept 34 years before reference; laches. (H. 846, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

101. Abraham Greeson. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1907, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims 19 years; stores and supplies taken 
in 1864; claim never presented to any department; slept 24 years 
before reference and 19 years in Court of Claims witliout a motion; 
laches. (H. 440, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

102. Archibald P. Griggs, Referred in 1905; loyalty in 1906; stores 
and supplies taken ''during the war"; claim never presented to any 
department; slept over 40 years; laches. (S. 237, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

103. Sarah Hays. Referred in 1906 and loyalty found in 1910 after 
three years; stores and supplies taken " during the war" ; claim never 
presented prior to reference; slept 41 years; laches. (H. 362, 62d 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

104. Enoch Humphreys. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department; slept for 42 years; laches. (H. 619, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

105. Samuel Hunt. Referred in 1896; loyalty found in 1909, after 
13 years (slept in Court of Claims); brought on for trail in 1911, 15 
years after reference; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim not 
presented to any department; slept 32 years before reference; laches. 
(H. 447, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

106. Patrick Jennings. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim rejected by Southern Claims 
Commission, because proofs do not show either citizenship or loyalty; 
slept 42 years with above exception; laches. (H. 480, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) I 

107. Sabini Jones. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907 on 
account of ''tender years"; stores and supplies taken in 1865; no 
claim ever presented to any department; slept 41 years; laches. 
(H. 208, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

108. Catherine Kelton. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1906, 
after 18 years' slumber in the Court of Claims; stores and supplies 
taken in 1864; not shown to have ever been presented to any depart- 
ment; slept 24 years before reference and 18 years after reference; 
laches. (H. 430, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

109. Solomon Landis. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken " during the war ; " claim never presented to 
any department; slept over 42 years; laches. (S. 662, 60th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

110. Elijah Pinson. Referred in 1897; loyalty found in 1903, 16 
years after reference; stores and supplies taken "during the war;" 
claim not shown to have been presented to any department; slept 32 
years before reference and 16 years in Court of Claims mthout being 
moved after reference; laches. (H. 199, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 



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111. William H. Rice. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any de- 
partment; slept 42 years; laches. (H. 536, 60tri Cong., 1st sess.) 

112. Jacob B. Russell. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; Southern Claims Commission re- 
jected this claim in 1880 because claimant was unable to show loyalty; 
claim slept 43 years with above exception; laches. (H. 203, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

113. Melvin J. Smith. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1893; 
not brought on for trial until 1904, 11 years afterwards; stores and 
supplies taken in 1864; claim not shown to have been presented to 
any department; slept 26 years before reference; slept in Court of 
Claims without being moved for trial 14 years; laches. (S. 234, 58th 
Cong., 3cl sess.) 

114. Aaron Turner. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim presented to Southern Claims 
Commission, which rejected it and noted in the index that it is barred; 
slept 43 years with above exception. (S. 347, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

115. Millinton Waldrop. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; slept 42 years; laches. (H. 570, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

116. Carl Weiland. Not found to be either loyal or disloyal, but 
found to be a neutral foreigner residing at Savannah; finding made in 
1909; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim rejected by the South- 
ern Claims Commission in 1872; referred under Bowman Act in 1907, 
but loyalty could not be established, and the petition was dismissed; 
referred under Tucker Act in 1909; with above exceptions claim slept 
for 45 years; laches and no proof of loyalty. (S. 106, 61st Cong., 
1st sess.) 

117. Masonic Hall Trustees, of Atlanta. Referred in 1908; loyalty 
found in 1909; three rooms belonging to this lodge were leased in 1865 
by the assistant quartermaster, United States Army, and occupied 
from November 1, 1865, to February 28, 1866; also from March 1, 
1866, to March 30, 1866, two rooms; the agreed rent for the first three 
months was $100 a -month, and for the second two months S75 per 
month; in an attempted settlement the quartermaster issued a 
voucher in the sum of $475, but the Quartermaster General rejected 
the voucher and refused to pay it; in 1872 the claim was referred to 
the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department and rejected for lack 
of jurisdiction. (S. 723, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

118. St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Atlanta. During the war the 
United States military forces, .by direct authority, tore down and 
used buildings belonging to claimant, to wit, the parsonage, two 
2-room cottages, and one office building and used the material in the 
construction of quarters for United States soldiers; the Government 
paid for the value of these buildings, $3,760; this claim is for rent of 
the church building, but the evidence fails to show any period of 
occupation of the church building by the soldiers, or to specify in any 
particular how the church building proper was damaged, or to explain 
why, if it was damaged, a claim for such damage was not added to 
the $3,760 already paid by the Government. (S. 186, 58th Cong., 
2d sess.) 



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Illinois. 

119. Thomas Foster. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1910; 
use and occupation from September 26, 1862, to November 24, 1862; 
claim rejected by the Quartermaster General's Department; claim 
slept from that time until the Fifty-eighth Congress, a period of over 
40 years; laches. (S. 412, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

120. Fannie Pemberton. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 1905; 
boat belonging to claimant taken in 1862 for use of the Army in trans- 
porting troops and never returned; claim never presented to any 
department ; slept for 40 years; laches. (H. 209, 5Sth Cong., 3d sess.) 

120^. E. Leonidas Smith. Referred in 1 904 ; loyalty found in 1910 ; 
use and occupation of tract of land occurred, containing 60 acres in 
Cook County, 111., occupied as Camp Taylor, and continuing from 
September 26, 1862, to November 24, 1862; certain buildings on the 
ground were destroyed by fire, which occurred on November 20, 1862, 
the cause of which is unknown; the tract of land was owned by a 
partnership consisting of said E. Leonidas Smith and one Thomas 
Foster; it is not claimed that there was any lease with the Govern- 
ment, but it is claimed that the rental value and the value of the 
property destroyed was $2,800, for which claimant asks $1,400; 
claim was presented to the Quartermaster General at the time but 
not allowed, and it then slept without any action being taken until 
its reference to the Court of Claims in 1904, a period of 42 vears; 
laches. (S. 618, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

121. John J. Vincent. Referred in 1902; loyalty found m 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim never presented to any 
department; slept for 40 years ; laches. (H. 512, .59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

Indiana. 

122. JosiahJennison. Referred in 1910; loyalty fomid in 1911; sup- 
plies taken in 1862; claim never presented to any department; slept 
for 37 years, the first bill being mtroduced in Congress in 1889; was 
never presented to the Southern Claims Commission or to any depart- 
ment; laches. (S. 217, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

Kansas, 

123. Henry Bennett. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1902, 14 
years later, durmg wliich period it slept in Court of Claims mthout 
motion; was not brought on for trial in Court of Claims mi til 1908, 20 
years after reference; stores and supplies taken m 1861-1864; never 
presented to any department; slept 24 years before reference and 20 
years in Court of Claims after reference; laches. (H. 875, 60th Cong., 
1st. sess.) 

124. Alfred W. Kent. Referred in 1900; loyalty found m 1905; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim presented to no department; 
slept for 36 years before reference; laches. (S. 455, 59th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

Kentucky. 

125. Thomas N. Arnold. Referred m 1908; loyalty found in 1912, 4 
years later; stores and supplies taken m 1862-63, at which time Union 
troops acting under authority took possession of the residence, out- 



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buildings, and land of claimant and occupied the same; this claim 
was never presented to any officer or department from 1863 to 1908, 
45 years; laches. (S. 262, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

126. Kinchen Bell. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-1864; claim never presented to any 
department; slept over 40 years. (H. 108, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

127. WiUiam H. Boswell. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1905, 
17 years after reference; brought on for trial in 1906, 18 years after 
reference, during which time the claim slept without being moved 
for trial; stores and supplies taken in 1865; claim slept for 23 years 
without reference and 18 vears after reference; laches. (H. 232, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

128. Henry P. Bottom. Referred in 1899; loyalty found in 1904, 

5 years later; brought to trial in 1907, 8 years after reference; stores 
and supplies taken in 1862 during and at the time of the battle of 
Perry ville; part of the time the farm was occupied by Confederate 
soldiers and pq.rt of the time by Federal soldiers; claim slept 37 years 
before reference ; laches. (H. 837, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

129. Patrick Henry Bridgewater. Referred in 1906; loyalty found 
in 1909; stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim was rejected in 1872 
by the Quartermaster General because the proof did not establish 
its merits and the loyalty of the claimant was not shown; slept for 
43 years, with above exception; laches. (H. 568, 61st Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

130. Coleman T. Brown. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1889; 
claim slept in Court of Claims and was not brought on for trial until 
1908, 20 years later; stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim never 
presented to any department; slept 26 years before reference and 20 
years in Court of Claims without trial; laches. (H. 861, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

131. Stephen E. Brown. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1894, 

6 years later; not brought on for trial until 1907, 19 years after ref- 
erence; stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim never presented to 
any department; slept 26 years before reference and 19 years in 
Court of Claims; laches. (H. 569, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

132. Clement Calhoun. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1888, 
but claim under that reference was abandoned; referred again in 
1900, but no prosecution of the case was had under that reference; 
referred again in 1900 under Tucker Act; loyalty found in 1909, after 
lying dormant for 9 years; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim 
rejected by Quartermaster General in 1865 because claimant could 
not make satisfactory proofs; no diligence was shown from that time 
until 1900, a period of 35 years; laches. (S. 56, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

133. Mary R. Cammack. Referred in 1910; lo3^alty found in 1912; 
stores and supplies taken in 1865 and claim was never presented to 
any department; slept 45 years; laches. (S. 310, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

134. W. G. Chesher. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1912; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department, but slept 43 years; laches. (S. 246, 62d Cong., 
2d sess.) 

135. Henry Cohen. Referred in 1898 under Bowman Act and 
abandoned under that act; referred in 1908 under the Tucker Act; 
loyalty found in 1911 ; stores and supplies taken in 1861-62 and 1864; 
claim presented to Quartermaster General for a portion of the prop- 
erty; was disallowed on account of disloyalty of claimant; slept from 



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1864 to 1908 (44 years) with above exceptions; laches. (S. 222, 62d 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

136. Harmon Conley. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken in 1861; presented to Quartermaster Gen- 
eral and rejected in 1876; slept 45 years with above exception. 
(H. 942, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

137. Thomas D. Denny. Referred in 1891 ; loyalty found in 1903, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims 12 years without motion; moved 
for trial in 1904, 13 years after reference; stores and supplies taken in 
1861 ; slept 30 years before reference and in Court of Claims 13 years; 
laches. (H. 503, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

138. Woodford Dunn. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1898, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims 10 years; moved for trial in 1908, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims 20 years ; stores and supplies taken 
in 1862; slept 26 years before reference . and 20 years in Court of 
Claims; laches. (H. 850, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

139. Emma F. Everman. Referred in 1910; found loyal in 1911; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; slept 47 years; laches. (H. 238, 
62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

140. T. S. Grider. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; stores 
and supplies taken; use and occupation furnished 1862 to 1864; claim 
never presented to any department, except the introduction of a bill 
in 1886; slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 570, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

141. James M. Hall. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1865; property was confiscated by the 
Government on the ground that claimant was selling whisky and 
liquors to enlisted men in violation of the order of commandant sta- 
tioned at that place; claim never presented to any department; slept 
38 years; laches. (H. 388, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

142. Starkey Hall. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1908, 20 
years after reference, during which time claim slumbered in the Court 
of Claims without a motion; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept 
for 26 years before reference and 20 years after reference; laches. 
(H. 364, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

143. Robert Hardwick. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863-64; claim presented to Quarter- 
master General under act of 1864 and disallowed because proof was 
not sufficient that the propery was taken or that it was used by 
the Government; slept 41 years with above exception; laches. 
(H. 378, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

144. Thomas Heyser. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863 or 1864; claim never presented to 
any department; slept 42 years; laches. (H. 907, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

145. Thomas R. Hill. Referred in 1902; %alty found in 1905; 
store and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department; slept nearly 40 years; laches. (H. 200, 58th 
Cong., 3d sess.) 

146. John G. Holloway. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
claimant died January 17, 1870; he rented a '^ tract of land near 
Columbus, Ohio, to the State of Ohio by lease for one year from 
March 1, 1861, to March 1, 1862, upon which Camp Chase was estab- 
lished; the stipulated rent was $4 i)er acre and damages; rent was 
paid to him under this lease to March 1, 1862; -on March 1, 1862, the 



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Federal Government took possession of Camp Chase and retained 
control of the same to 1866, without lease, but the Government paid 
to Holloway the rent during said period at the rate specified in his 
lease with the State of Ohio; this claim is for damages growing out 
of the taking of a rail fence which surrounded the tract of land, 
consisting of 462 acres, and cross fences wliich divided the tract 
into fields, which rails were used by the United States troops for 
firewood, and for other damages found by a board of referees on 
December 29, 1863, to be $802.75, said award, under instructions 
of the Secretary of War, having been referred to the governor of the 
State of Ohio and Raj^mond Burr, assistant quartermaster, and 
approved by them; this claim, except as above, was never presented 
to any department and slept for 36 years before its reference; laches. 
(S. 469, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

147. WiUiam B. Kelly. Referred in 1898 and loyalty found in 1910, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims for 12 years; stores and supplies 
taken '' during the war "; slept for 35 years before reference and 12 
years after reference; laches. (H. 1243, 61st Cong., 3d sess.) 

148. Harriet N. Lair. Referred m 1888; loyalty found in 1889; 
slept in Court of Claims 20 years and not moved for trial until 
1908; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept 26 years before refer- 
ence and 20 years after reference; laches. (H. 788, 60th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

149. Alfred Leathers. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; never presented to any depart- 
ment; slept 45 years; laches. (S. 555, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

150. Thomas K. Letcher. Referred in 1910; loyalty found in 
1910; stores and supplies taken in 1863; slept 47 vears; laches. 
(H. 1309, 61st Cong., 3d sess.) 

151. John Lindsey & Son. Referred in 1910; lo3'alt3^ found in 
1911; use and occupation from October, 1863, to May, 1864; slept 
46 years; not presented to any department; laches. (S. 213, 62d 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

152. Robert B. McClelland. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 
1910; stores and supplies taken in 1862; never presented to any 
department; slept 47 years; laches. (S. 496, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

153. Daniel Mans. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1904; stores 
and supplies taken ''during the war "; claim never presented to any 
department; slept nearly 40 years. (H. 201, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

154. Catherine Morin. Referred in 1899 ; loyalty found in 1908, nine 
years after reference; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; 
claim never presented to any department; slept before reference 35 
years and after reference 9 years ; laches. (H. 751, 60th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

155. John H. Marshall. Referred in 1904; loyalty in 1904; the 
class of claims to which this belongs was thoroughly investigated by 
Senator Townsend, a member of this committee, as a subcommittee, 
and his report was adverse; this claim was rejected by the Secretary 
of War in 1869; claimant on June 16, 1864, paid S300 as commuta- 
tion or exemption mone}' to release him from military service under 
draft made in the county of Pendleton, State of Kentucky ; he claims 
that the requisition upon Pendleton County was excessive ; the requi- 
sition upon the State of Kentucky, as a whole, was not excessive, 
and Senator Townsend, as subcommittee, found, therefore, that the 



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draft was not excessive as made in the county of Pendleton ; to allow 
this claim would be to open the door for some 2,000 similar claims. 
This claim was never presented to any department of the Government, 
except to the Secretary of War, as above stated, when it was rejected 
in 1869; with that exception it slept from 1864 to 1904 — 40 vears. 
(S. 70, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

156. Samuel P. Martin. Referred in 1903; found loyal in 1907; 
services rendered and stores and supplies taken in 1862-1864 ; findings 
do not show that the stores and supplies were taken by authority; 
neither do they show that the services were rendered under any con- 
tract; claim was presented to the Quartermaster General but re- 
jected in 1888 for want of sufficient evidence; claim slept from 1864 
to 1884, when presented to the Quartermaster General, a period of 
20 years; it slept from the time of its rejection in 1888 to 1903, a 
period of 15 years; laches and insufficient proof. (H. 334, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

157. Rudolph Minton. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim never presented to any de- 
partment, until it was presented to the Fifty-third Congress in 1894; 
slept for 32 5^ears; in fact, slept 44 years before reference; laches. 
(S. 141, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

158. Robert L. Moore. Referred in 1908; loyalty found under 
some former reference in 1898, but no further proceeding had at that 
time; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; presented to 
Commissary General August 20, 1864, and disallowed because proof 
did not show that claimant was loyal, nor did it show that the stores 
were taken under authority; slept 44 years; laches. (H. 379, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

159. Wilfiam A. Nally. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1861-62; slept 42 years, except that it 
was presented to the Quartermaster General October 8, 1879, and 
disallowed in 1886 by that officer because the proof did not satisfy 
him that the property had been taken as claimed; the finding of 
the Court of Claims shows that 270 cords of wood were taken from 
decedent in 1861 and that the United States paid for the same the 
sum of $811.50; the findings show that further property was taken 
in 1862, but do not show that it was taken by authority, and claimant 
was unable to make proof of the taking before the Quartermaster 
General; this fact, together with laches, exists. (S. 260, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

160. Samuel H. Pipes. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim presented to Quar- 
termaster General in 1889 and was rejected; was not presented to any 
other department at any time prior to the Fifty-eighth Congress; 
slept nearly 40 years. (S. 461, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

161. Wilfiam L. Poynter. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-63; claim rejected by the Quarter- 
master under act of July 4, .1864, because claimant was not able to 
establish his loyalty; slept over 40 years; laches. (H. 386, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

162. Belle M. Robards. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department prior to the introduction of a bill in 1891, 37 years 
after it accrued; was not referred until 40 years after it accrued; 
laches. (S. 511, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 



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163. Richard M. Robinson. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1906; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept 42 years; no diligence 
whatever shown; laches. (S. 120, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

164. T. P. Salyer. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1906; stores 
and supplies taken and destroyed 1861-62; slept for 41 years; claim 
never presented to any department; laches. (H. 259, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

165. David B. Sanders. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies furnished in 1861-62; slept 45 years; no diligence 
whatever shown; laches. (H. 1371, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

166. Andrew J. Tranghber. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 
1908, 20 years after reference, during which time the claim slept in 
Court of Claims without motion; stores and supplies taken in 1863; 
slept 25 years before reference and 20 years in Court of Claims after 
reference; laches. (H. 1226, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

167. John L. Walker. Referred in 1888 ; loyalty found in 1 908, after 
20 years, during which time the claim slept in Court of Claims without 
motion; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept 26 years before 
reference and in Court of Claims 20 years after reference; laches. 
(H. 960, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

168. Elijah Warren. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1893, 
5 years after reference; moved for trial in 1908, 20 years after refer- 
ence, during which time it was allowed to sleep; stores and supplies 
taken in 1862-63; slept 25 years before reference and 20 years after 
reference; laches. (H. 681, 60tli Cong., 1st sess.) 

169. Eleanor G. Whitney. Referred in 1909 ; loyalty found in 1910 ; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim never presented to any 
department, but slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 331, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

170. Joseph Wilson. I ef erred in 1904; loyalt}'' found in 1909; stores 
and supplies taken in 1862; claim never presented to any department, 
but slept 42 years; laches. (S. 258, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

171. Presbyterian Church of Nicholasville, Ky. ; was occupied for 
''a long time"; no year given, and the length of time it was occupied 
not specified. The trustees of this church have apparently gone out 
of business, and since the reference of this case to the Court of Claims, 
to wit, in April, 1907, these trustees filed a waiver of any interest in 
the claim and released and quitclaimed their interest to the town of 
Nicholasville. The claim, if any, accrued at least 42 years before 
this purported quitclaim deed and had never been presented to any 
department for allowance. (S. 66, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

172. Trustees Cumberland Church, of Russellville, Ky. This 
church, which was a substantial brick building, was occupied by the 
forces of the United States as a hospital and for barracks about three 
years during the war, but the Cumberland Presbyterian Church did 
not have any record title, if any conveyance was ever made to the 
church. Some time after the war the trustees of the Baptist Church 
of Russellville, which appeared to hold the record title, conveyed 
the property to one Hugh Barclay, and the trustees of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church, of Russellville, about the same time executed a 
conveyance of the property to Barclay. In 1877 the Quartermaster 
General rejected the claim for damages to the building, and the 
claim has slept since that time. (S. 270, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 



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Louisiana. 

173. Vincent Avet. Referred in 1904; claimant not found to be 
loyal, but was a citizen of France who resided in Louisiana, and was 
neutral; stores and supplies taken and use and occupation for which 
claim is made occurred in 1863-1865; claim never presented to any 
department, and slept for over 40 years before reference; laches. 
(S. 191, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

174. Remy Bagarry. Referred in 1902; not found to be loyal, 
because claimant was a foreigner and was neutral; stores and supplies 
taken, in 1863; claim never presented to any department, but slept 
for 39 years; laches. (S. 167, 57th Cong., 2d sess.) 

175. Henry Bauman. Referred in 1901; loyalty not found, be- 
cause owner of property was a foreigner residing in Louisiana and 
remaining neutral; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; 
claim was never presented to any department, and slept for at least 
36 years; laches. (S. 245, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

176. Mary J. Barrow. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 37 years; laches. 
(S. 175, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

177. H. B. Benjamin. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim slept for over 40 
years; laches. (H. 363, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

178. Eugene Augustin Bourcy. Referred in 1904; loyalty not 
found, because claimant was an alien residing in Louisiana and Mexico 
during the war and was neutral; stores and supplies taken "during 
the war, but prior to 1864" ; claim was presented to the War Depart- 
ment in 1864, but rejected because under the act of July 4, 1864, 
claims arising in insurrectionary States could not be paid; claim was 
never subsequently presented to any department of this Govern- 
ment having jurisdiction, and slept for 40 years; it was presented 
to an international claims commission under the treaty between 
France and the United States on January 15, 1880, but at that time 
Eugene Augustin Bourcy had become a naturalized citizen of the 
United States, and the commission had no jurisdiction; no excuse 
whatever is shown for not presenting the claim to the Southern Claims 
Commission or to the Court of Claims prior to 1904; laches. (S. 647, 
60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

179. Louisa Breaux. Referred in 1902; Louisa Breaux died dur- 
ing the war and before the property in controversy was taken ; she is 
not shown to have been loyal; she left a husband, Alexander Guidry, 
and he is not shown to have been loyal ; the four children, who are the 
present claimants, are found to have been loyal, simply because of 
"tender years"; claim slept for nearly 40 years; the father of these 
children, while they were under age, made no claim, and the children 
made no claim for many years after becoming of age; laches. (S. 192, 
58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

180. Lindsay L. Brown and Talton E. Brown. Referred in 1904; 
property in question belonged to William R. Brown, who died in 
1863, and left surviving him a widow, Elmira Brown, and five children, 
William, Henry, Sarah, Lindsay L., and Talton E.; it is not shown 
that William R. Brown before liis death was loyal; it is shown 
that his widow, Elmira Brown, was disloyal and that the two sons, 
Henry and William, were not loyal; the other children, Sarah, 



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Lindsay L., and Talton E. are found to be loyal; the stores and 
supplies belonging to the estate of William R. Brown were taken after 
his death and it does not appear that any administration was had; 
Lindsay L. and Talton E. were minors, and the findmg that they were 
loyal rests upon their ''tender years"; no claim was ever presented 
to the Southern Claims Commission, the Quartermaster General, or 
any other department of the Government, but the claim slept for 
many years after the minors became of age and for a period of at 
least 35 years after the property was taken; the property being 
personal estate, and no administration having been had, title in these 
minor children was never established; laches. (S. 292, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

181. Felicite Neda Chretian. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 
1906; stores and supplies taken in 1863; claimant and her brother 
were each the owner of an undivided half of a plantation, which they 
were conducting as a copartnership, and the personal property taken 
was owned by the firm in equal shares; among other things, 77 bales 
of cotton were taken from the plantation by troops under the com- 
mand of Gen. Banks in 1863; the proof does not show what was done 
with the cotton — that is, whether it was sold and the proceeds paid 
into the Treasury of the United States under the abandoned-property 
act of March 12, 1863, or what was done with it; the proof does not 
show that the United States appropriated the cotton or applied the 
proceeds thereof to its own use m any way; no claim for this cotton 
or other property taken was ever presented to any department of the 
Government; the claim slept for 40 years; clear laches. (S. 299, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

182. Charles L. Clark. Referred in 1905 ; loyalty of Emily C. Love- 
lace and Charles L. Clark found in 1907; finding is based on "tender 
years" ; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claimant and his deceased 
brother and sister, Emily C. Lovelace and Charles L. Clark were 
minors at the time property was taken; the findings do not show 
how these minors came into the ownership and possession of the 
property; no administrator or guardian is named and nothing is said 
about the parents of these children, which leaves a doubt in one's 
mind as to whether it was in truth and fact their property; the claim- 

"ant, Stephen D. Clark, was born in 1854 and became of age in 1875, 
but no claim whatever for this property was ever presented to any 
department of the Government, or any action taken until its refer- 
ence in 1905, 41 vears after the propertv was taken; clear laches. 
(S. 135, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

183. J. Martin Compton. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 
1908; stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 44 years; 
laches. (H. 1315, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

184. Jean Crouchet. Referred in 1905; finding in 1907; no find- 
ing of loyalty because Crouchet was a French subject and neutral; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim slept for over 40 
years; never presented to any department of the Government; 
laches. (H. 329, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

185. Antoine Decuir, sr. (heirs of). Referred in 1904; loyalty 
found in 1906; stores and supplies taken in 1863; attempt was made 
to file this claim with the Southern Claims Commission, but not until 
after the time had expired and the claim was barred by limitation; 
no other attempt to present the claim was ever made during the 



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period of 41 years between the time of the taking of the property in 
1863 and its reference to the Court of Claims in 1904; laches. (S. 
482, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

186. Louis Delatte-. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim slept for at least 
35 years; laches. (S. 238, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

187. Eloise Deslonde. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim not presented to 
any department, but slept for over 40 years; laches. (S. 138, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

188. Belot A. Donato. Referred in 1904; loyalty found by a 
majority of the court in 1906; stores and supplies taken "during the 
war"; no claim presented to any department, but slept for at least 
40 years; laches. (S. 251, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

189. Clarisse Donato. Referred in 1904; finding of lo^^alty in 
1907 by majority of the court; stores and supphes taken in 1863; 
claim never presented to any department, but slept 41 years; laches. 
(S. 238, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

190. Alfred Duplantier. Claim first referred in 1886, and loyalty 
found in 1892, 6 years afterwards. In 1892, upon motion, Court of 
Claims dismissed the claim because, not having been presented to the 
Southern Claims Commission, it was barred by the statute of limita- 
tions; in 1892 claimant made a motion for a rehearing, which was 
denied, the Court of Claims again holding that, not having presented 
his claim to the Southern Claims Commission, it was barred; claim 
then slept for 10 years and in 1902 was referred under the Tucker 
Act. Loyalty found in 1906; stores and supplies taken "durmg the 
war"; in this last hearing claimant undertakes to show diligence by 
showing that he was unable to bring witnesses to Washington to tes- 
tif}^ in person before the Southern Claims Commission, as required 
by the act of March 3, 1871; the Court of Claims, as already shown, 
dismissed the claim referred under the Bowman Act, because claimant 
had not presented it witliin the time allowed by the act of March 3, 
1871, not because he was unable to make proof; the value of the 
property is claimed to be nearly S10,000, and it is certainly large 
enough to have required the use of diligence on the part of claimant; 
laches. (S. 159, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

191. George W. Dyson. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supphes taken in 1864; no claim ever presented to any 
department; claim slept 43 years. (S. 354, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

192. Martin Guillory. Referred in March, 1909; loyalty found in 
1911; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never pre- 
sented to any department; slept 44 years; laches. (S. 212, 62d 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

193. Emile Honore. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken ''during the war," claim never presented to 
any department of the Government, but slept for over 40 years; laches 
(S. 115, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

194. Matthew J. Jones. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1903, 
based on "tender years" of claimants; these claimants were minor 
heirs of Matthew J. Jones, deceased; it is not shown that Matthew J. 
Jones was loyal ; the date of his death is not found ; no administration 
appears to have been had and the property taken is personal property; 
the findino; of the court does not show that the claimants at the time 



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the property was taken owned the same, or that they had any right 
of possession in it; it simply recites that it was taken "from the 
claimants, then infants of tender years" ; it does not show that Mat- 
thew J. Jones did not leave a surviving widow; there is no decree 
establishing heirship or any satisfactory evidence of ownership ; claim 
slept from the close of the war until 1902, at least 37 years; laches. 
(H. 182, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

195. Florville Kerlegan. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 40 years and was 
never presented to any department; laches. (S. 452, 59th Cong.^ 
1st sess.) 

196. Rosamond Lacour and Colin Lacour. Referred in 1890: loy- 
alty found in 1908, 18 years later, during which time the claim slept 
without a motion; was not brought on for hearing until 1911, 21 years 
after reference, during which time it peacefully slumbered in the Court 
of Claims; stores and supphes taken in 1864; slept 24 years before 
reference and 21 years after reference; laches. (H. 444, 62d Cong., 
2d sess.) 

197. Adele Rixner Lanaux. Referred in 1905; found loyal in 
1905; stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim presented to Southern 
Claims Commission under act of 1871, but was not prosecuted because 
claimant did not have the means; with that exception it slept until 
the Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-1899); it was referred to Court of 
Claims in Fifty-sixth Congress, but was referred in the name of David 
Lanaux, who did not own the property; present reference was made 
42 years after loss occurred; laches. (S. 136, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

198. Joseph Landry. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war;" claim never presented 
to any department, but slept at least 40 years; laches. (S. 196, 59th 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

199. Jean Bap tiste Lazare. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1905; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim slept for 40 
years; laches. (S. 125, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

200. Alexander Lemelle. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906 
by a majority of the court; claim slept for 40 years mthout being 
presented to any department ; laches. (S. 207, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

201. Euphemie Lemelle. Referred in 1904; loyalty found by 
majority of the court in 1906; stores and supplies taken ''during the 
war"; claim slept for 40 3^ears and was not presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (S. 206, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

202. Leon Lemelle. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim slept for 42 years; 
was never presented to any department; laches. (S. 131, 62d Cong, 
2d sess.) 

203. Rigobert Lemelle. Referred in 1904; found loyal in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; slept for 41 years; was not pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (S. 384, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

204. Bosnian Lyons. Referred in 1904; Bosnian Lyons died in 
1861, leaving the property in question and leaving a surviving widow 
and one son and three daughters; no administrator was appointed, 
and the title to the personal property did not pass by administration; 
property was taken in 1863. by military force of the United States 
under proper authority; claim slept for 41 years and was never pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (S. 181, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 



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205. Laura P. Maddox. Referred in 1885; slept in Court of Claims 
14 years, at which time loyalty was found; it slept on until 1906, 21 
years after reference, when it was moved for trial; stores and supplies 
taken in 1863-64 from three women, Fannie M. Wells, Ida F. Wells, 
and Laura P. Maddox; findings do not show that these women were 
the owners, and simply recite that the property was taken, not charg- 
ing that it was taken by authorit}^ nor that it was used by the Gov- 
ernment for any purpose; Fannie M. Wells and Ida F. Wells were 
found to have been disloyal, and Laura P. Maddox was found to be 
loyal by reason of her "tender years"; claims were rejected by 
Southern Claims Commission and were not reported to the Court of 
Claims for over 20 years, and were allowed to sleep without being so 
referred for 21 years; laches. (H. 516, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

206. Louis Malveau. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1909; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war" ; claim never presented to 
any department, but slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 184, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

207. Ozam D. Metoyer. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any 
department, but slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 495, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

208. Theophile Metoyer. Referred in 1907 ; loyalty found in 1909 ; 
stores and supplies taken ^'during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department, but slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 94, 61st 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

209. Alphonse Meuillon. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim not presented to 
any department of Government and slept for 40 vears; laches. (S. 
403, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

210. Francois Meuillon. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1908 
(one of the judges dissenting); stores and supplies taken in 1863; 
claim never presented to any department, but slept for 42 years; 
laches. (S. 219, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

211. Lucien Meuillon. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; never referred to any 
department, but slept for 40 years. (S. 400, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

212. George Neck, sr. Referred in 1907; no loyalty found be- 
cause claimant was an alien residing in Louisiana and was neutral; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department of Government having jurisdiction; owner did 
present it to the French-American Claims Commission, an interna- 
tional tribunal established by the treaty of 1880, but he was at that 
time a citizen of the United States, and, of course, his claim could 
not be heard; otherwise claim slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 343, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

213. Gertrude Nolasco. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1902; 
stores and supplies taken in 1865; claim never presented to any 
department of the Government; slept for 35 years; laches. (S. 263, 
57th Cong., 1st sess.) 

214. Robert Norris. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any 
department; slept for 40 years; laches. (S. 611, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

215. Caroline Pierront. Referred in 1911; loyalty not found be- 
cause owner was a foreigner living in Louisiana and neutral; stores and 



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supplies taken in 1863; claim was never presented to any department 
except that it was presented to the International Claims Commission 
between France and the United States in 1881, but the commission 
refused to recognize it because the claimant had lost her citizenship 
in France; with this exception, it slept for 48 years; laches. (H. 
334, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

216. William H. Osborne. First referred to Court of Claims in 
1884; claim was then made by Belle E. Osborne, executrix of the 
estate of John Osborne, who was a partner of William H. Osborne, 
but no appearance under that reference was niade in favor of William 
H. Osborne; in 1900 the claim of William H. Osborne was referred 
and William H. Osborne was not found to be loyal under that reference 
and the court further found that there was laches on the part of 
claimant, the claim not having been presented to the Commissioner 
of Claims, nor presented when the claim of the partner John Osborne 
was heard; claim was again referred to the Court of Claims in 1906 
and under the second reference the court in 1906 found that William 
H. Osborne was loyal; stores and supplies taken in 1864, and the 
court specifically found laches, as follows: "No reason is shown why 
the claim in this case was not prosecuted before the Commissioner of 
Claims or in this court while pending under the reference of March 3, 
1883, other than the death of William H. Osborne in 1865, leaving 
his widow, Mary Corinne, and other daughter"; laches. (S. 239, 
58th Cong., 2d sess., and S. 137, 59th Cong^, 2d sess.) 

217. Alfred C. Parham. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim slept for 43 years and no 
diligence whatever is shown;, laches. (H. 626, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

218. Michael Rubi. Referred in 1888; slept until 1906, 18 years, 
without a motion; stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 
25 years before reference and 18 years after reference, except that it 
was presented to Southern Claims Commission under act of 1871, 
but no proof was submitted and no decision rendered; laches. 
(H. 309, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

219. John Schwartzenburg. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 
1911; stores and supplies taken in 1864; was referred under Bow- 
man Act in 1884, but neglected and dismissed in 1889 for want of 
jurisdiction, not having been presented to the Southern Claims Com- 
mission; with this exception the claim slept for 43 years; laches. 
(S. 172, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

220. Joseph T. Strother. Referred in 1897; loyalty found in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863-1865; claim slept in Court of Claims 
after reference 7 years and slept 32 years before reference; never 
presented to any department; laches. (S. 239, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) 

221. Arthur Taylor, surviving partner. Referred in 1904; loyalty 
found in 1904; stores and supplies taken in 1863; slept for 41 years; 
was never presented to any department or officer of the Government; 
laches. (S. 30, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

222. Philip D. Quays. Referred in 1904; Delphine A. Taylor, one 
of the legal representatives of Philip D. Quays, presenting this claim, 
is not found to have been loyal during the war, and one of the other 
legal representatives, Mrs. Amy A. Taylor, and Philip D. Quays, 
deceased, are shown to have been loyal; there is no finding to show 
that the other legal representative, Marie C. Quays, was either loyal 
or disloyal; the stores and supplies in question were taken from 



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Delphine A. Taylor, Amy A. Taylor, and Philip D. Quays, who were 
the heirs of Aleliza Pickett Quays, who died before the war; the loyalty 
of Amy A. Taylor and Philip D. Quays rests upon the fact that they 
were of "tender years"; no administration appears to have been 
had; while the fincUngs show that the property was taken from these 
heirs, it does not state that they owned the property; the property 
in question being personal property, was taken "during the war" 
(no particular dates given) ; the claim sle])t for about 40 years before 
anything was done; laches. (S. 128, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

223. Richard Terrell. Referred in 1900; claim first referred in 
1900; in the finding made in 1905, the court does not find that the 
owner, Richard Terrell, was loyal; in 1862 the United ^States Gov- 
ernment took possession of a certain cotton press and some real estate 
belonging to Terrell and held the same until September, 1863; prop- 
erty was restored to Terrell in 1863 and he was paid $2,841.33 there- 
for, for wliich he gave his receipt, reciting that he released the United 
States from any claim for damages and for rent. The United States 
continued to occupy the real estate after payment from December, 
1863, to June 1, 1865; it paid him for one year's rent of this period 
the sum of $6,000; this claim is for the last'year's rent, $6,000, from 
June 1, 1864, to June 1, 1865; the claim slept 35 years and was not 
presented to any department; in 1906 claimant made a motion for 
an additional finding to the effect that the former findings did not 
cover an additional claim for damages to the cotton press, and in 
1908 the court found that Terrell had released the United States from 
any claim for such damages; laches. (S. 392, 61st Cong., 2d sess., 
and S. 279, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

224. Marceline Tucker. Referred in 1897; in 1904 the court found 
that all the claimants were disloyal during the war with the- excep- 
tion of two of them, Charlton B. and Louisa Tucker, who were found 
loyal simply because of their "tender years"; stores and supplies 
taken "during the war" (no dates); claim was not presented to the 
Commissioner of Claims and is expressly found by the court to be 
barred under the act of 1871, and was never presented to any depart- 
ment of the Government; slept at least 32 years before reference 
and 7 years after reference; laches. (vS. 10, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

225. Romain Verdun. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim was never pre- 
sented to any department or officer of the Government, although after 
1887 bills were introduced in Congress, it was not referred until after 
that date, and the first reference was dismissed because it was not 
prosecuted and was dismissed for want of prosecution; laches. (S. 
490, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

226. Adolph Verret. Referred under the Bowman Act but no date 
of reference is shown; under that reference, however, the Court of 
Claims in 1892 found that it did not appear that Adolph Verret was 
loyal and dismissed the case; the court found that claimant was a 
member of the convention that passed the ordinance of secession; 
claim was again referred in 1901 and no different finding as to loyalty 
was made, but the court adhered to the first finding; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1862, and, with the exception of the reference and dis- 
missal above referred to, the claim slept for 41 3^ears; laches and 
disloyalty. (S. 21, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) 



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227. Amelia Olivier Delille. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 
1907; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never pre- 
sented to any department and slept for at least 40 years; laches. 
(S. 135, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

228. Henry Von Hofen. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1897, 
10 years later, during which time claim slept in Court of Claims 
without motion; claim was not brought on for a hearing until 1908, 
having slept for 20 years in Court of Claims, during which time it 
should have been dismissed for nonprosecution; stores and supplies 
taken ^'during the war" (no dates given); laches. (H. 562, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

229. Samuel N. Wliite was the owner of the steamboat Red Chief 
seized by Gen. Banks in 1863, who found the boat tied in a creek near 
Port Hudson. Immediately after White purchased this boat she was 
pressed into the Confederate service, and to preserve her White 
remained on board and commanded the boat under orders of the 
Confederate quartermaster. She was soon after informally released 
to White by the Confederates and he ran the boat into a creek known 
as Thompson Creek, where he left her in charge of a small crew; in 
July, 1863, after the fall of Port Hudson, a force of United States 
troops found the boat tied up in Thompson Creek and seized her and 
turned her over to the chief quartermaster as property captured from 
the enemy in war. In 1864 White instituted a libel against the boat 
and the Quartermaster General in the United States district court, 
and after trial secured a judgment for the restitution of his boat ; from 
this decision an appeal to the United States circuit court was taken 
and a supersedeas bond given, but on account of the war there was no 
circuit judge in the circuit and the appeal was never disposed of; the 
United States continued to use the boat, and afterwards, in 1865, 
sold her for $7,000, which was $2,000 more than her appraised price; 
White then made application to the Secretary of War asking for the 
return to him of the proceeds of the sale of his boat and for an allow- 
ance for her use, and in 1866 Secretary Stanton directed that the 
proceeds of the sale be turned over to White upon his executing a 
release of all further claims for the boat and its value, together with 
an acknowledgment '^that said sum is received in full accord and 
satisfaction for all claims against the United States or its officers for 
said boat and its value." In compliance ynih this order the proceeds 
of the sale were paid to White, the voucher stating that the payment 
''is in lieu of the boat and in full payment and release of all claims by 
said Samuel N. White on the Government of the United States on 
account of said boat, being in full accord and satisfaction for all 
claims against the United States and its officers for said boat or its 
value." White signed the following receipt: 

Received at Washington, D. C, the 16th of March, 1866, of Brt. Col. J. C. M. Ferran, 

quartermaster, United States Army, the sum of seven thousand dollars and 

cents, in full of the above account in check No. 26, on the 1st National Bank of 
Washington, D. C, payable to S. N. White or bearer, for |7,000. 

S. N. White. 

White thereafter presented the claim he makes here to the Southern 
Claims Commission and submitted evidence and that tribunal dis- 
allowed his claim, because not satisfied of his loyalty and "for the 
further reason that the payment to the claimant of the proceeds of 
the steamboat, as hereinafter set out, was intended by both parties 

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as final payment for both the value and the use of the boat." The 
claim was then referred to the Court of Claims under the Bowman 
Act, and on December 16, 1893, findings were made under that refer- 
ence and the court found that it was without jurisdiction to make 
any report of the facts, although it, in a preliminary hearing in 1892, 
found that White was loyal. The court refused to take jurisdiction 
because it said: 

We think the payment made was intended by the Secretary, and so xmderstood 
and a.ccepted by the claimant in full of his claim, and that being so the claim was 
barred at the time of the passage of the act of March 3. 1883 (Bowman Act). 

Claimant afterwards, in 1894, made a motion for a rehearing of the 
case, and in 1894 the Court of Claims adhered to its first decision and 
said, in reference to the payment to WTiite authorized by the Sec- 
retary of War: 

Upon this application the Secretary in effect offered a compromise that the i)ro- 
ceeds be surrendered to the applicant without further litigaiion upon the condition 
that he should surrender all further claims against the United States for said boat. 
The terms proffered were accepted, the money was paid, and a c:ompromise effected. 
That compromise barred the owner from again asserting a demand against the United 
States for the use of the boat, and the court is without jurisdiction to reopen the claim 
(28 C. CI., p. 57, and 29 C. 01.. p. 264). 

The claim was referred again to the Court of Claims under the 
Tucker Act in 1898, and the court in its findings reiterates the ground 
of its former decisions, but under the Tucker Act reported the find- 
ings above set forth; no claim was ever made for the cargo of this 
boat anywhere until this reference in 1898, 35 years after the cargo 
was taken; laches as to cargo and bar as to the boat by compromise 
and settlement. 

230. WilKam R. Wunbish. Referred in 1904 ; loyalty found in 1907 ; 
stores a.nd supplies taken in 1863; claim was never presented to any 
officer or department of the Government authorized to settle same 
and slept for 41 years; laches. (S. 89, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

231. Plains Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, East Baton Rouge. 
Referred in 1903; found loyal in 1903; lodge building destroyed and 
material used for military purposes m 1863; claim was never pre- 
sented to any department of the Government for 40 years; laches. 
(S. 27, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) 

Maryland. 

232. Jacob R. Adams. Referred in 1885; loyalty found in 1885; 
slept in Court of Claims until 1904, 19 years, without being moved; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; never presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (H. 175, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

233. Martin H. Avey, Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department nor to Congress until the Sixtieth Congress; slept 
for at least 44 years; laches. (S. 314, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

234. Mayor and city council of Baltimore. Referred in 1890; no 
finding whatever in regard to loyalty; claim is for rent and damage 
to one of the parks of the city alleged to have been used by United 
States soldiers as an encampment during the war; the only claim 
ever presented was in October, 1875, to the Third Auditor of the 
Treasury, when it was rejected; with this exception it slept for 35 
years, when it was referred m 1890; it then slept in the Court of 



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Claims for 10 vears and was not nioved for trial until 1910; laches. 
(H. 961, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

235. Alfred C. Belt. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1907 in 
the Court of Claims. Stores and supplies taken "during the war"; 
claim presented to the quartermaster general in November, 1S74, but 
was at that time outlawed by the act of March 3, 1873; besides, the 
quartermaster general disallowed it, because he was not satisfied that 
the claimant was loyal and because he was not satisfied that the 
claim was just; with the exception of this attempt the claim slept at 
least 39 years before reference and was never presented to any other 
department prior to 1904; laches. (S. 59, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

236. A. Rosa Bevans. Referred in 1896 under the Bowman Act; 
claimant found loyal thereunder m 1902 after the claim had slept 
under that reference for six years, and the case was then dismissed 
because claimant neglected to prosecute it; it was referred again in 
1910 under the same act; stores and supplies taken in 1861-62; never 
presented to any department prior to 1910, except that it was referred 
m 1896, and the claimant did not have sufficient interest in it to follow 
the claim, and six 3'ears later it was dismissed for want of prosecution; 
laches. (H. 1108, 61st Cong., 3d sess.) 

237. Wilham E. Boteler. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1900; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never presented to any 
department of Government, but slept 36 years; laches. (H. 166, 
59tli Cong., 2d sess.) 

238. Richard T. Gott and Benjamin N. Gott. Referred in 1908; 
loyalty found in 1909; use and occupation of land, 1861-1865; claim 
never presented to any department, but slept for 43 vears: laches. 
(S. 32, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

239. Henry N. Harris. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; presented to Quartermaster in 
1880, who rejected it, because it was at that time barred by the stat- 
ute of limitations; with that exception the claim slept for 45 years; 
laches. (S. 123, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

240. Harmon W. Hessen. Referred in 1906 ; loyalty found in 1907 ; 
stores and supplies taken; use and occupation occurred and services 
rendered "during the war"; claim for use and occupation and damage 
never presented to any department prior to 1906; claim for a por- 
tion of the service and for the property taken presented to the War 
Department in 1863 and 1879, and the amount claimed at that time 
was only $345.86 and the claim for this amount was disallowed in 
both instances, because they could not be established by evidence; 
wdth these exceptions claims slept for 40 years; laches. (S. 371, 
60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

241. Cornelia Jones. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in some pre- 
liminary hearing in 1888; stores and supplies taken "during the 
war"; presented to the Quartermaster General in 1886 and was dis- 
allowed; the Quartermaster General did not fuid that the property 
was taken by authority and specificallj^ found that it was unable to 
determine that the supplies were taken by the Army of the United 
States for the use of the United States. The Court of Claims does 
not find that the property was taken by authority; with the excep- 
tion of the presenting of the claim to the Quartermaster General in 
1886, the claim slept about 40 years; laches and insufficient proof. 
(S. 96, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 



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242. Jeremiah Kanode. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1906, 
six years later; stores and supplies taken in 1862 ; claim slept 38 years; 
laches. (H. 199, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

243. Ignatius J. Langley. Referred in 1896; loyalty found in 1901, 
five years later; horses belonging to Army were pastured in a farm 
belonging to Langley for two weeks "during the war"; claim was 
never presented to any department ; slept over 30 years before it 
was presented; laches. (H. 390, 60th Cong. 1st sess.) 

244. WiUiam P. Leaman. Referred in 1 886 ; loyalty found in 1904 ; 

18 years after reference; not brought on for hearing in Court of 
Claims until 1906, 20 years after reference; dui'ing which time it 
slept; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept before reference 24 
years, and after reference 20 years; laches. (H. 543, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

245. Richard T. Mitchell. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1908; stores and supplies taken in 1862; referred in 1885 under the 
Bowman Act, but was dismissed; with this exception, slept for 42 
years; laches. (S. 655, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

246. Eh Moats. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; stores, 
and supplies taken in 1863; presented to the Quartermaster General 
in 1876 and 1879 and disallowed, because not established; with this 
exception claim slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 654, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

247. Augustine D. O'Leary. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1907; stores and supplies taken in 1862; an attempt to prove claim 
before the Quartermaster General in 1873 failed, because the proof 
did not show that the stores were taken and converted to the use of 
the United States. With this exception claim slept 42 years; laches. 
(S. 198, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

248. William D. Poole. Referred in 1895; loyalty found in 1908, 
13 years later, during which period claim was allowed to sleep in 
Court of Claims. Not brought on for trial until 1910, 12 years after 
reference; rent and occupation of 200 acres of land during the war; 
claim rejected by Quartermaster General m 1864; slept from 1864 to 
1895, 31 years before reference and slept 12 years in Court of Claims 
without prosecution; laches. (H. 757, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

249. Urias D. Ramsburg. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 
1909; stores and supplies taken in 1863; was rejected by the Quarter- 
master General in 1872, because not satisfied that the claimant was 
loyal; with that exception claim slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 710, 
60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

250. Reverdy A. Rennoe. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1907, 

19 years after reference, during which time the claim was allowed 
to sleep in the Court of Claims without motion on the part of claim- 
ant; stores and supplies in 1861-62; not shown that it was taken by 
authority; except as above, claim was never presented to any depart- 
ment; slept 26 years before reference and 19 years after reference; 
laches. (H. 647, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

251 . Hester Ann Ridout. Referred in 1886; loyalty found in 1904, 
18 years later; brought on for trial 1905, 19 years later, duriiig which 
time claim was allowed to sleep in the Court of Claims without a 
motion on the part of plaintiff; stores and supplies taken "during the 
war" from Hester Ann Chase, who died in 1875; Quartermaster 
General rejected the claim under the act of 1864; claim is for timber 
cut on a tract of land which Hester Ann Chase inherited under a will 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 37 

made by Jeremiah Townley Chase in 1828; upon the death of Hester 
Ann Chase in 1875, Frances Chase and Matilda Chase, under the 
terms of this will made in 1828, became the owners of the land; 
Frances died in 1880 and Matilda in 1885, and a third sister, Hester 
Ann Chase, died in 1888, leaving a will in which she appointed 
Zachariah D. Ridout as her executor, who makes this claim; who 
the beneficiaries under her will are does not appear; after being 
rejected by the Quartermaster General, this claim slept for over 
20 years before reference, and after reference it continued to sleep for 
19 years. (H. 36, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

252. Henry Show. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; the Court of Claims states: 

Payment was made to claimant's decedent in the sum of $308 in full of a claim orig- 
inally presented to the Quartermaster General for wood. The evidence does not 
establish to the satisfaction of this court that any other wood was taken from claimant, 
except that for which he has already been paid. 

The entire claim not being presented to the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral, was disallowed for the reason stated by the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral, that the evidence did not show that the property was actually 
received or used by the United States Army; with this exception, 
the claim slept for 26 years before reference to the Court of Claims, 
under which reference nothing whatever was done ; it then slept until 
1903, over 40 years after the supplies are claimed to have been taken 
before being referred under the Tucker Act; laches and insufficient 
proofs. (S. 329, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

253 . George Snyder. Referred m 1 885 ; loyalty found m 1 887 ; claim 
slept after reference 22 years and was not moved for trial until 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1861-1865; laches. (H. 198, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

254. George L. Stull. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1902; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept 37 years; laches. (H. 
416, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

255. Elijah Thompson. Referred m 1900; loyalty found in 1901; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war" ; findings do not show that 
the same were taken by authority; claim never presented to any de- 
partment; slept over 35 years; laches. (S. 115, 57th Cong., 1st sess.) 

256. Cornelius Vertz. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; use 
and occupation of farm ' ' during the war' ' ; claim slept 39 years ; never 
presented to any department; laches. (H. 38, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

257. Joseph Waltman. Referred hi 1888; loyalty found ui 1888; 
claim slept in Court of Claims after reference for 18 years, and was not 
moved for trial until 1906; was never presented to any department, 
except by introduction of a bill and reference; slept for about 27 
years before reference and 18 years after reference; laches. (H, 
224, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

258. Lewis W. Williams. Referred in 1888; loyalty found ia 
1889; not moved for trial in Court of Claims until 1911, 23 years after 
reference, durmg which time the claimant was so mdifferent about 
it, that he allowed it to sleep in the Court of Claims; stores and supplies 
taken m 1862; claim was presented to Quartermaster Genera^l, who 
allowed part of the items and made payment for the same to the extent 
of $93.99, but rejected the balance because the quartermaster found 
that claimant was not entitled to the same. (H. 323, 62d Cong., 
2d sess.) 



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259. Zacliariah L. Windsor. Referred in 1889; loyalty found in 
1909, 13 years later, during which period claim was allowed to sleep; 
stores and supplies taken ''during the war"; claim presented to the 
Quartermaster General under the act of July 4, 1864, and was rejected 
because he was not satisfied that claimant was loyal. AVith that 
exception, claim slept over 30 years before reference, and 13 years 
after reference; laches. (S. 245, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

260. -Frederick Wyand. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1909; 
damage done and stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim rejected 
by the Quartermaster General under the act of July 4, 1864, and was 
referred to Court of Claims under the Bo^vTQan Act in 1884, but was 
afterwards dismissed because claimant was not sufficiently interested 
to prosecute it, and was dismissed for wantof prosecution; otherwise 
it slept for a period of 47 years; laches. (S. 240, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

261. Samuel C. Young. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
use and occupation occuring during the war; claim rejected by 
Quartermaster General at the time because he was not satisfied that 
it was a just claim; it was also disallowed by the Third Auditor of 
the Treasury in 1886; with this exception it slept for 42 years; 
laches. (H. 39, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

262. La Grange Lodge, Independent Order Odd Fellows, Boons- 
boro. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1908; rent for hospital; 
claim for about six months after September 15, 1862; no particular 
damages specified; character and value of building occupied not 
shown; claim was disallowed by the Quartermaster General in 1873; 
with this exception it slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 180, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

Michigan. 

263. Myron Powers. Referred in 1908; claimant was a first lieu- 
tenant in the One hundred and sixty-first New York Volunteer 
Infantry during the war; mustered into service in 1862; he tendered 
his resignation as an officer on June 10, 1864, for personal reasons; 
was honorably discharged at Port Hudson, La.; after his discharge 
he went from Port Hudson, La., to the place where he was mustered 
into service, at Elmira, N. Y.; his claim is for travel paid and allow- 
ance from Port Hudson to Elmira; as the officer had resigned for 
personal reasons and received his discharge at Port Hudson, La., it 
is difficult to discover any reasonable ground for making a payment; 
he presented the claim to the accounting officers and it was rejected 
upon the ground that his resignation was taken for personal reasons. 
(S. 222, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

Minnesota. 

264. Randolph M. Probsfield. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 
1904; case was not moved for trial until 1911, 11 years after reference; 
stores and supplies (.35 tons of hay at S55 a ton) furnished between 
the 15th of September and 30th of October, 1863, in the State of 
Minnesota; claim slept for 38 3^ears, during which time it was not 
presented to any department; laches. (S. 37, 62d Cong., 1st sess.) 



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Mississippi. 

265. N. M. Aldridge. Referred iii 1896; loyalty found in 1904, 
8 years later; not moved for trial until 1907, 11 years after reference; 
stores and supplies furnished "during the war"; claim never pre- 
sented to any department, but slept over 30 years before reference 
and 11 years after reference; laches. (H. 443, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

266. Charles Baker. Referred m 1897; loyalty found in 1904, 7 
years later; stores and supplies taken from the estate of Charles 
Baker, deceased, '^ during the war"; Charles Baker died in 1861; 
Court of Claims does not find whether he was loyal or not; by his 
last will his estate was devised to Amanda Heath and Elizabeth 
Snyder; when the will was probated and the estate transmitted is 
not shown; claim was never presented to any department of the 
Government, but slept for over 30 vears before reference; laches. 
(S. 196, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) 

267. Leopold Bickart. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1901, 
13 years after reference; brought on for trial in 1905, 17 years after 
reference; stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim slept for 24 years 
before reference and 17 years after reference; never presented to any 
other department; laches. (H. 506, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

268. Robert Bradley. Referred in 1904; Robert Bradley died 
intestate in 1863; the stores and supplies were taken from his estate 
in 1863; it does not appear that Robert Bradley, deceased, was loyal, 
and at the time the property was taken the estate does not appear 
to have been settled; the present claimants, who claim as heirs of 
Robert Bradley, are found to be loyal simply because at the time 
they were "infants of tender years"; thev had all attained their 
majority in 1874, but no claim was ever filed by them or m their 
behalf prior to 1904, and no reason was given showing why the claim 
was allowed to sleep for 41 years; laches. (S. 503, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

269. D. H. Chamberlain. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; loyalty of this claimant 
is based uj^on his "tender 3^ears"; the property was taken from the 
estate of his deceased father, and the evidence does not show when 
he died, and if his death occurred during the war, whether or not he 
was loyal; it seems that a prior claim made by this claimant and 
T. J. Chamberlain, his brother, and Pauline Chamberlain, his sister, 
was referred to the Court of Claims at one time, and that m 1902 the 
court rejected the claim of Pauline Chamberlain because she was 
not loyal and allowed the claim of T. J. Chamberlain, antl that it 
dismissed the claim of this petitioner for want of jurisdiction; claim 
of this petitioner does not appear to have been presented to any 
department or ofRcer of the Government prior to its presentation 
to the Sixtieth Congress, 45 years after the supplies were taken; 
laches. (S. 480, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

270. Royall Chambers. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1899, 
after the claim had slept in the Court of Claims for 11 years; it was 
not brought on for trial until 1905, after it had slept in the Court of 
Claims for 17 years; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim never 
presented to any department, except as above, and slept 24 years 
before its reference and 17 years after its reference; laches. (H. 37, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 



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271. Sarah G. Clark. Referred in 1897. Loyalty found in 1900; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim slept 33 years before refer- 
ence and was never presented to any department of the Government 
before that time. (S. 17, 56th Cong., 2d sess.) 

272. S. N. Clark. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1902; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war" (no date); claim never pre- 
sented to any department and slept for at least 35 years; laches. 
(S. 262, 57th Cong., 1st sess.) 

273. William L. Clearman. First referred to the Court of Claims 
in 1892 and was dismissed, because barred by the statute of limita- 
tions; referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1908; stores and supplies 
taken "during the war" (no date); except as above, claim slept for 
about 40 years; laches. (S. 313, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

274. Margaret Davidson. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1906, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims 18 years; stores and supplies taken 
in 1863; claim never presented to any department, but slept 25 
years before reference and 18 years after reference; laches. (H. 229, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

275. Alfred W. Doak. Referred under the Bowman Act in 1904, 
but nothing done; referred under the Tucker Act in 1906; loyalty 
found in 1908; stores and supplies taken in 1863; loyalty of claim- 
ants is based upon the fact that they were "infants of tender years"; 
the property taken belonged to the estate of Alfred W. Doak; the 
findings do not show when he died nor that there was any adminis- 
tration of his estate; but that the property was taken from these two 
children and from their mother and three adult brothers; as the 
loyalty of these two claimants rests upon their having been at the 
time "infants of tender years," and as no claim is made in behalf of 
their mother and the three adult brothers, there is ground for sus- 
picion that the mother and adult brothers were disloyal; claim was 
presented to the Southern Claims Commission by the mother in 1873 
and was rejected because the commission was not satisfied as to her 
loyalty and that of her children; with this exception the claim slept 
for 42 years; laches. (H. 1225, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

276. Eliza A. Fielder, deceased, and Benjamin L. Fielder. Re- 
ferred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; stores and supplies taken "dur- 
ing the war"; claim never presented to any department and slept 
for 41 years; laches. (H. 812, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

277. Hardin P. Franklin. Referred in 1905; loyalty of heirs of 
Hardin P. Franklin found in 1909 because of their "tender years"; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-63 from Hardin P. Franklm; he 
is not found to have been loyal; claim slept for 42 years and was 
never presented to any department prior to its reference to the 
Court of Claims; laches; the two heirs who make the claim were born 
in 1849 and 1851; so that they became of age as early as 1870 and 
1872, and their minority is no excuse for all this delay; laches. 
(S. 113, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

278. William Freeman. Referred in 1903; loyahy found m 1905; 
stores and supplies taken during the seige of Vicksburg; claim never 
presented to any department and slept for 41 years; laches. (H. 323, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

379. J. B. Fuller. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910: stores 
and supplies taken "during the war" (no date given); claim slept for 



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over 40 years; never presented to any department until its reference 
in 1906; laches. (H. 884, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

280. Matilda B. Harvey. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war" (no date given); claim 
slept for 40 years and the court expressly finds that there was no 
excuse for the delay and laches in presenting it; it was not presented 
to the Southern Claims Commission and long since has been barred 
by the statute of 1871. (S. 120, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

281. Benjamm Hawes. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim never presented 
to any department and slept for at least 42 years; laches. (S. 616, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

282. Julia B. Hancock. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war"; claim slept for 40 years; 
laches. (H. 532, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

283. Hartwell B. HilUard. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1905; stores and supplies taken m 1863; not shown to have been 
taken by authority; claim presented to the Quartermaster General, 
but was rejected; claimant unable to prove loyalty; slept for 41 years; 
laches. (H. 239, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

284. David R. Hubbard. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863, 29 years afterwards and when claim 
was barred under the act of 1871; presented March 10, 1892, to the 
Quartermaster General and rejected; with that exception claim slept 
43 years; laches. (S. 362, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

285. William Hunt. Claim for stores and supplies taken in 1863; 
presented to Southern Claims Commission under act of 1871 and 
rejected, because claimant unable to prove loyalt}^; afterwards re- 
ferred to Court of Claims under the Bowman Act, and was dismissed 
because the Court of Claims found that claimant was disloyal; claim 
again referred under Tucker Act in 1904 and Court of Claims re- 
viewed the whole case, and new testimony was submitted, and in 
1910 the Court of Claims made a finding that an injustice had been 
done to William Hunt in finding that he was disloyal and found that 
he was loyal to the Government of the United States during the war. 
The Court of Claims under the last reference states: 

It seems that the former finding was predicated largely upon the presumption of a 
continued legal residence where Mr. Hunt's planting interests lay and that several of 
his slaves were removed, presumably upon his order, to Texas. It will thus be seen 
that the issue was largely determined by those presumptions arising out of supposed 
residence, and the alleged affirmative act of the endeavor on the part of the owner to 
escape the consequences of the presence of certain of his slave property \^dthin the' 
territory coming into the possession of the United States forces. It appears that Mr. 
Hunt died soon afterwards He could not then, in the then state of the law, testify to 
sustain his contention of loyalty. * * * ^ Believing that an injustice has been 
done to the memory of a loyal man; that Mr. Hunt was not connected with the one 
disloyal act charged against him (which the court accepted under another act), and 
that he continued to cherish the same sentiments in Kentucky that caused his removal 
from Mississippi (because he was not in sympathy with the Confederacy), and that 
an erroneous presumption was applied as the result of misinformation and mistake, 
the court is of the opinion that the finding of loyalty with the reasons therefor, should 
be certified. 

It appears in another part of the opinion that at the beginning of 
the war, William Hunt was engaged in the business of a planter in 
the State of Mississippi and that he was born and educated in the 
State of Massachusetts, from which State he has removed to Frank- 
fort, Ky., and subsequently bought land in Mississippi, and at the 



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time of the beginning of the war was maintaining two homes — one in 
Mississip])i, and the other in Kentucky — and that he voted in Misssis- 
sippi; it. further appears that he had the reputation of one being 
loyal to the United States and violently hostile to the cause of the 
C^onfederaey; it further appears that when the war broke out Mr. 
Hunt took liis famil}^ and left Misssissippi and thereafter made his 
residence in Kentucky; it appears that in 1S62, complaint was made 
to the Confederate authorities that Mr. Hunt was disloyal to the 
South and an order was made for his arrest by the Confederate Gov- 
ernment and that he was subsequently captured by a Confederate 
colonel; it does not appear what was done with him, but it appears 
from the finding of the Court of Claims that he strenuously objected 
to one of his sons organizing a company for the Confederate Army, 
a,nd that he sent another of his sons to Germany to prevent him from 
entering the service of the South; so, in this last finding the court 
goes fully into the details and finds that Mr. Hunt was loyal. He 
can hardly be charged with laches and neglect because he presented 
his claim to the Southern Claims Commission under the act of 1871, 
and subsequently had it referred to the Court of Claims under the 
Bowman Act, and in both cases it was rejected because these tribu- 
nals were not satisfied as to his loyalty: but it would seem from the 
thorough examination made under the last reference that in this 
case, which is a marked exception, an error was made against him 
and that he was in fact loyal; the bill which he presented is itemized, 
and in each case gives the number of animals taken from each of the 
three plantations owned by Hunt in Mississippi during the year 1863; 
from the date that this property was taken in 1863 to the date of the 
last reference to the Court of Claims in 1904 is a period of 41 years, 
during which time only two acts appear to have been done in pre- 
senting the claim: (1) Its presentment to the Southern Claims Com- 
mission under the act of 1871 and its disallowance, because not sat- 
isfied of loyalty, and (2) its reference to the Court of Claims under 
the Bowman Act. and its rejection, because not satisfied of lovaltv. 
(S. 619. 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

286. Sarah T. Jarratt. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 41 5^ears; never 
presented to any department; laches. (S. 470, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

287. Ehzabeth Johnson. Referred in 1901 ; loyalty found in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863, but the court does not find that they 
were taken by authority; claim slept 38 years and never was pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (S. 203, 5Sth Cong., 2d sess.) 

288. Vernon H. Johnston. Referred in 1904; loyalty of the heirs, 
Mary Julia Johnston, Belle O. Johnston, and Vernon Olivia Johnston, 
found because of their "tender years," found in 1906; also at the 
same time the court found that the widow, Fannie J. Johnston, was 
loyal; the property was taken from the estate of Vernon H. Johnston 
in the spring of 1863. Vernon H. Johnston died in 1862, and it does 
not appear whether he was loyal; neither does it appear that any 
administration of his estate had been had or that the distribution 
of the same had been made to these heirs at the time this personal 
property was taken in 1863; claim was not presented to the Southern 
Claims Commission nor to any department of the Government prior 
to its reference in 1904, 41 vears after this property was taken; laches. 
(S. 332, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 



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289. Henry Jones. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 41 years and was 
never presented to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 
134, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

290. Kinchen W. King. Referred in 1909; loyalty of the original 
owner, Eanchen W. King, found in 1911; stores and supplies, for 
which claim is made, taken from Kinchen W. King "during the war" 
(no dates given). Owner died after the close of the war; claim pre- 
sented to Southern Claims Commission, which found that Kinchen 
W. King left seven heirs and that two of them — sons, named Henry 
W. King and Edward King — were not loyal. The Southern Claims 
Commission found the other children loyal and paid their respective 
shares in the property taken, to wit, the sum of $4,353.58. This 
claim is for $1,741.42, the share of these two dislo3'al sons. Henry 
W. King is dead, and the claim in behalf of his estate is made by his 
administrator. These two sons were disloyal, and their claim is 
based upon the technical point that at the time it was rejected b}" the 
Southern Claims Commission the property had not yet been distrib- 
uted, with this exception, the claim was allowed to sleep for about 
45 years; laches and disloyalty. (S. 255, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

291. Nancy Lay. Referred in 1901; lo3^alty found in 1907; stores 
and supplies taken in 1864, but is not shown to have been taken by 
authority; claim was presented to Southern Claims Commission in 
1872, but after the same was barred bv limitation, with that excep- 
tion, it slept from 1864 to 1901, 37 years; laches. (S. 34, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

292. Emma S. Lewis. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken ''during the war"; slept for 40 years. (H. 
640, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

293. Martha W. Lindley. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1906, 
18 years after reference, during which time claim slept mthout being 
moved for trial, during all of which time claimant neglected to prose- 
cute claim; stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim presented to 
Southern Claims Commission but rejected because the will ol the 
deceased owner, Ammon L. Lindle}', was not proven, so that his lieirs, 
who were the claimants, did not establish any title to the claim, and 
also because the heirs were not able to prove that they were loyal; 
the court fuids that Martha Lindlev, the executrix of the wdll, was 
loyal; but the property was taken from Ammon L. Lindle}" and the 
finding does not show that he was loyal; with the exception of the 
attempt to prove the claim before the Southern Claims Commission, 
it was allowed to sleep for 24 years before reference and after reference 
it was allowed to slumber in the Court of Claims for 20 3'^ears ; on the 
whole there is laches and an absolute failure of proof to show loyalty 
of the owner of this propert}^ at the time it was taken. (H. 737,'60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

294. Uriah Lunenburger. Referred in 1904; loyaltj^ found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim slept for 40 years; laches. 
(S. 64, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

295. Harvey R. McRaven. Referred in 1901; loj'-alty, because of 
''tender years" found in behalf of claimant in 1910; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1863-64; was taken from the estate of Tranquilla 
McRaven; findings do not show that Tranquilla McRaven was loyal, 
neither does it show that any administration of his estate occurred 



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and any distribution of the same made in 1864 at the time this prop- 
erty was taken; claim is made for claimant's share only of the prop- 
erty, although it does not appear that any fintal decree of distribution 
was ever made; never presented to any department, but slept for 37 
years before its reference to the Court of Claims; laches. (S. 562, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

296. Harriet Miles. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 1902; 
stores and supplies taken and damage done in 1863; claim never pre- 
sented to any department, but slept for 38 years; laches. (S. 102, 
57th Cong., 2d sess.) 

297. Willis J. Moran. First referred under Bow^man Act (no date 
given) and dismissed for want of prosecution; certauily no diligence 
can be based upon a reference and subsequent abandonment and 
failure to prosecute; referred again in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-63; claim slept 43 years; laches. 
(S. 331, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

298. WiUiam O. Moseley. Referred in 1899 ; loyalty found in 1901 ; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863, but the findings do not show that 
it was taken by authority; claim was never presented to any depart- 
ment of the Government, but slept 36 years before reference; laches. 
(H. 363, 56th Cong., 2d sess.) 

299. Mary Ann Nagle. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1904; 
use and occupation of claimant's property occurred in 1863-65; claim 
slept for 35 years and never presented to any department; laches. 
(S. 160, 5gth Cong., 2d sess.) 

300. Thomas J. Price. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken ''during the war;" claim slept at least 37 
years, durmg which time it was never presented to any department; 
laches. (S. 491, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

301. Julia Quine. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; stores 
and supplies taken in 1864; claim slept for 44 years; never presented 
to any department; laches. (H. 564, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

302. Robert Raiford. Referred in 1897; loyalty found in 1901; 
stores and supplies taken in 1863-64, not shown to have been taken 
by authority; claim was presented to Quartermaster General under 
act of July 4, 1864 and dismissed; never presented to any department 
after that time, but slept for 34 years; laches. (S. 218, 57th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

303. John Read. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1904, 16 
years after reference, during which period the claim was allowed to 
sleep without being moved; stores and supplies taken "during the 
war"; is not shown to have been taken by authority; slept 16 years 
after reference and about 25 years before reference; laches. (H. 120, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

304. Maria A. Reinhardt. Referred in 1904 ; loyalty found in 1906 ; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war" ; claim never presented to 
any department of the Government having authority to act upon it, 
except that a bill was introduced in 1878 and not acted upon; in 1890 
another bill was referred under the Bowman Act and dismissed 11 
years later for want of prosecution; these acts show negligence in- 
stead of diligence, and with their exception, the bill slept for 40 years; 
laches. (S. 177, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

305. Melchisedec Robinson. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 
1905; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; never presented 



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to any department of the Government, except that a bill was pre- 
sented to Congress in 1877 and not acted upon; otherwise it slept for 
nearly 40 years; laches. (H. 303, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

306. Catherine J. Kutherford. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 
1905, 17 years after reference; case was not moved for trial in Court 
of Claims until 1906, 18 years after reference; allowing this claim to 
sleep in the Court of Claims for 18 years without pushing it for trial is 
evidence of laches: stores and supplies taken "during the war"; slept 
23 years before reference and 18 years after reference; laches. (H. 
379, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

307. Minor Saunders. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim slept for 42 years and was 
never presented to any department; laches. (H. 227, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

308. Christian Schwartz and Leopold Bickart. Referred in 1888; 
loyalty found in 1901, 13 years after reference; not brought on for 
trial until 1906, 18 years after reference; allowing the claim to sleep 
for 6 years without moving it for trial is evidence of laches; stores and 
supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 23 years before reference; 
never presented to any department of Government, except as above; 
laches. (H. 499, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

309. Emanuel M. Solari. First referred under Bowman Act in 
1891 and abandoned; referred under Tucker Act in 1899; loyalty 
found in 1904; stores and supplies taken ''during the v^ar"; claim 
never presented to any department of the Government; slept for at 
least 35 3^ears; laches. (H. 194, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

310. Charles O. Spencer. Referred in 1897; no finding as to lo}^- 
alty; stores and supplies taken in 1862-1864; finding was that the 
property was taken from the claimant "and another," whose name 
is not given and who is not shown to have been loyal; it is claimed 
the property was taken from claimant's premises, but it is not shown 
that it was his property or that it was taken under authority; claim 
slept for at least 32 years before reference; laches. (S. 220, 56th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

311. Wiley W. Tipton. Referred in 1898; loyalty found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; not shown to have been taken by 
authority; claim slept for 34 years before reference and 12 years in 
Court of Claims before being brought on for trial; laches. (H. 801, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

312. Ehzabeth H. Welford. Referred m 1904; loyalty found in 
1907 on account of "tender years"; never presented to any depart- 
ment; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; slept for 34 
years; laches. (S. 192, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

313. Joel H. Willis. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1891; a 
further hearing at that time abandoned; loyalty found in 1906, 19 
years after reference; brought on for trial in 1907, 20 years after ref- 
erence; rejected by Southern Claims Commission on account of dis- 
loyalty; with this exception, never presented to any department; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept before reference 25 years and 
after reference before trial 20 years; laches. Proof of loyalty unsat- 
isfactory. (H. 207, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

314. John Wood. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1907; stores 
and supplies taken in 1862-63; slept 45 years; not presented to any 



46 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS, 

department of the Government; laches. (H. 538, 60tli Cong., 1st 
sess.) / 

.315. Richard O. Woodson. Referred in 1886; loyalty found in 
1909, 23 years later, during which the claim slept in the Court of 
Claims without a motion, which is evidence of laches; Southern 
Claims Commission rejected the claim because not satisfied of loyalty 
under the act .of 1871; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept with 
above exception 24 years before reference and slept in Court of Claims 
after reference 23 years; laches. (H. 677, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

Missouri. 

316. Willis M.Allman. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1911; 
stores and suppUes taken in 1863; claim never presented to any 
department; slept for 46 years. (S. 254, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

317. JohnM. Armstrong. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 
1909 ; use and occupation and damages occurred in 1861 ; claim rejected 
by the Quartermaster General in 1874; no administrator was appointed 
until 1909; claim slept 13 years before it was rejected by the Quarter- 
master General and after being rejected by him slept for 34 years 
without being presented to any department. (S. 224, 61st Cong., 

2(1 S6SS ) 

318. Wilham Baker. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1897; 
property taken in 1862; attempt to collect claim before quartermaster 
under the act of 1871 failed, because claimant was not able to prove his 
claim; presented to the auditor in 1865 and was rejected; slept with 
above exception from 1865 to 1890, 25 years, and slept in the Court 
of Claims for 7 years before loyalty was found and 19 years before it 
was moved for trial; laches. (H. 87, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

319. Louis Benecke. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; 
supplies furnished "during the war"; claim was presented to the 
Auditor of the Treasury at the time, 1865, and disallowed; slept from 
that time to the Fifty-fourth Congress, 31 years; was not referred to 
the Court of Claims until 1906, 41 years after the war ; laches. (H. 804, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

320. E. W. Bishop. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1901, 13 
years afterwards; not brought on for trial until 1908, 21 3^ears after 
reference, during which time it was allowed to sleep in the Court of 
Claims, which is evidence of laches; rejected by the Quartermaster 
General; stores and supplies taken in 1861-62; claim slept 25 3'ears 
before reference and 21 years in Court of Claims after reference; 
laches. (H. 735, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

321. Joseph C. Black. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1901, 
11 years after reference; moved for trial in 1904, 14 years after refer- 
ence; stores and supplies taken in 1862; slept 28 years before refer- 
ence and 14 years after reference; laches. (H. 173, 58tli Cong., 
3d sess.) 

322. David Blue. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1906, 18 
years after reference; moved for trial in 1908, 20 years after refer- 
ence; stores and supplies taken "during the war"; slept 23 years 
before reference and 20 years after reference; laches. (H. 11, 61st 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

323 . Sterling M . Bo3^se . R ef erred in 1 89 1 and loyalty found in 1 906^ 
15 years after reference; stores and supplies taken in 1864; slept 27 



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years before reference and not presented to any department; laches. 
(H. 514, eoth Cong., 1st sess.) 

324. Alexander Bradshaw. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 
1906; stores and supplies taken in 1861-1863; slept 40 years; never 
presented to any department; laches. (H. 519, 59th Cone;., 2d sess.) 

325. Isaac Brooks. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1904; prop- 
erty taken in 1864-65; slept for 39 years; laches. (H. 867, 59th 
Cong.. 1st sess.) 

326'. O. H. Cogswell. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1907; 
property taken in 1863-64; slept for 40 years; laches. (H. 489, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

327. Anselm L. Davidson. Referred in 1908 ; loyalty found in 1908 ; 
property taken in 1863; attempt to make proof before the Quarter- 
master General failed; claim slept for 45 years; laches. (H. 563, 
61st Cons;., 2d sess.) 

328. John P. Duke. Referred in 1902 ; loyalty found in 1904 ; prop- 
erty taken in 1862; slept for 42 years and not presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (H. 637, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

329. Hugh G. Glenn. Referred in 1888: loyalty found in 1909, 21 
years after reference to the Court of Claims, during which period it 
slept in that court, which is evidence of laches, being for 21 years; 
property taken in 1861-62; attempt to prove claim before Quarter- 
master General failed; wdth this exception claim slept before refer- 
ence for 26 vears: laches. (H. 618, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

330. County of Greene. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1911; 
use and occupation of courthouse and jail for military purposes and 
damages occurred ''during the war"; claim slept for over 40 years 
without having been presented to any department; laches. (S. 235, 
6 2d Cong., 2d sess.) 

330^. John Hammontree. Referred in 1888; found loyal in 1906, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims for 18 years; brought on for trial in 
Court of Claims in 1908, after sleeping for 20 years; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1861-62: claim was presented to the Quartermaster 
General under the act of 1864, but was disallowed because claimant 
was unable to prove liis loss; claim slept for at least 25 years before 
reference and was then allowed to sleep in the Court of Claims for 20 
years; laches. (H. 689, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

331. Nathan E. Harrelson. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 
1909; property taken in 1862; an attempt to prove the claim before 
the Quartermaster General under the" act of July 4, 1864, failed; 
with this exception claim slept for 47 years; laches. (H. 472, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

332. Paschal Henshaw. Referred in 1906; claimant was a private 
in the Enrolled Militia of Missouri and was found loyal; claim is for a 
horse and saddle which was captured from this private soldier by the 
Confederates in 1864; claim was rejected by the Auditor of the 
Treasury in 1889; wants pa}' for liis horse, blanket, and revolver 
captured by the Confederates; with the exception of bemg presented 
to the Auditor of the Treasury, this claim slept from 1864 to 1906, 
42 years; laches. (H. 46, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

333. Jackson County. Referred in 1888; no finding as to loyalty; 
use and occupation of courthouse and jail during the war by United 
States troops; claim slept in Court of Claims after reference until 
1905, 18 years, and slept for over 20 years before reference; laches. 
(H. 175, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 



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334. Abram Jones. Referred in 1890; found loyal in 1892; not 
brought on for trial until 1906, 16 years after reference, which is 
evidence of laches; property taken m 1862; slept 28 years before 
reference; laches, (rl. 845, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

335. Benjamin Kirk. Referred in 1890; found loyal in 1903, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims 13 years; moved for trial in 1906, 
16 years after reference; property taken in 1863; claim slept for 27 
years before reference and 16 years after reference, with the exception 
that it was presented to the Quartermaster General and rejected 
because claimant was unable to establish his right; laches. (H. 819, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

336. John W. Livesay. Referred in 1901 and loyalty found in 
1901; use and occupation occurred from 1863 to 1868; Quartermaster 
General refused to allow this claim and rejected it under the act of 
July 4, 1864, because not satisfied of the loyalty of this claimant; 
with that exception the claim slept for 33 years; laches. (H. 513, 
60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

337. Philip Mchael. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1898; 
property taken in 1863; rejected by the Quartermaster General 
because claimant could not furnish satisfactory proof; slept for 
about 35 years; laches. (H. 744, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

338. Karoline Mulhaupt. First referred in 1887 under Bowman 
Act, under which loyalty v/as found, but the case was abandoned 
and not tried; referred under Tucker Act in 1903; loyalty found in 
1905; use and occupation 1862-1866; claim never presented to any 
department; except as above, slept for 39 years; laches. (S. 74, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

339. Mrs. E. S. Munn. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1910; 
property taken in 1862; never presented to any department of the 
Government; slept for 47 years; laches. (H. 604, 61st Cong., 2d 
sess. ) 

340. Levi S. North. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1901, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims for 13 years; property taken in 
1862; slept for 22 'years before reference and 13 years after reference: 
with above exceptions never presented to any department of Gov- 
ernment; laches. (H. 172, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

• 341. WiUiam B. Payne. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1862; never presented to any department; slept 
for 44 years; laches. (H. 912, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

342. Phelps County. Referred in 1907; no finding as to loyalty; 
use and occupation of courthouse and jail, 1862-1865; never pre- 
sented to any department of the Government, but slept for 45 years ; 
laches. (S. 353, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

343. Daniel K. Ponder. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1862 by foraging parties; not shown to have been 
by authority; claim slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 584, 60th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

344. Tillard and Sophia L. Ragan. Referred in 1906; loyalty 
found in 1908; property taken in 1862-1865; never presented to any 
department of the Government, but slept for 45 vears; laches. (H. 
1272, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

345. Wilham A. Ryan. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1861; attempt to prove claim before Quartermas- 
ter General under the act of 1864 failed because claimant could not 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 49 

furnish proof; claim slept for 40 years; laches. (H. 335, 62d Cong., 
2d sess.) 

346. Francis M. Sheppard. Referred in 1906; this man was a 
Union soldier and loj^al; he was seized by the provost marshal under 
orders from Gen. Hazen in 1864 and $830 in cash taken from him on 
the ground that he was a ' ' chuck-a-luck gambler " ; an inquiry was 
had in 1865 under the order of Gen. Hazen, and the claimant was 
required to present proofs that the money taken from him was not 
the fruits of gambling; the court, after considering the evidence, 
recommended that $376 be refunded and that the remaining $454 be 
forfeited, as coming within the instructions of Gen. Hazen for the 
confiscation of the proceeds of chuck-a-luck; the forfeited sum of $454 
was disbursed by the commander of the division and not returned 
to the Treasury Department; none of the $860 has ever been returned 
to claimant; claimant allowed his claim to sleep until 1891, for a 
period of 27 years, when he presented a claim to the Auditor for the 
War Department and it was rejected; never presented to any other 
department, but with this exception slept for 42 years; laches. (H. 
1463, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

347. County Court, St. Genevieve County. Referred in 1904; no 
loyalty is found; use and occupation of property occurred in 1864; 
claim slept for 40 years; never presented to any department; laches. 
(S. 441, 59th Cong.,,lst sess.) 

348. Lowell G. Spaulding. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 
1912, five years after reference; property taken in 1864 and rejected 
by the Quartermaster General; with this exception, claim slept for 43 
years; laches. (S. 260, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

349. John P. Bell, treasurer State Hospital No. 1, Fulton. Referred 
in 1903 ; this property belonged to the State of Missouri which did not 
secede; use and occupation occurred for one month only in 1861 and 
rent for that period was paid; this is a claim for repairs; the Court of 
Claims record does not give the specifications shomng the character 
and extent of the repairs; no claim for these repairs was evei pre- 
sented to the Government, but claim slept for 42 years; laches. (S. 
121, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

350. Merit F. Thomas. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1911; 
property taken in 1863; never presented to any department of the 
Government, but slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 254, 62d Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

351. John Turley. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; prop- 
erty taken in 1863; claim slept for 41 years without being presented 
to any department of Government; laches. (H. 918, 59th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

352. John Wilson. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1909, 19 
years later, during which period claim slept in Court of Claims, which 
is evidence of laches; attempt to establish claim before the Quarter- 
master General under the act of 1864 failed; claimant could not pro- 
duce sufficient proofs; property taken in 1862; with above exception 
claim slept for 28 years before reference and 19 years in Court of 
Claims; laches. (H. 230, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

353. Solomon Young. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1902, 12 
years later, during which time claim was allowed to sleep ; property 
taken in 1861-1864; claim slept for 26 years before reference and 12 
years after reference; laches. (H. 901, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

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50 list of war claims. 

Nevada. 

354-358. These five claims all rest upon exactly the same facts. 
Referred in 1900; finding made in 1904; in 1S59 the Piute Indians 
made a series of raids upon the settlers in Nevachi; the settlers at 
Virginia City and Carson City and in the surrounding countr}' organ- 
ized a company of volunteers, made up of recruits, and aggregating 
about 125 or 130 men, commanded by Maj. William Ormsby; in a 
fight with the Indians at Pyramid Lake these volunteers were defeated 
and the property, provisions, and supplies used by them were either 
abandoned or destroyed; the survivors returning to their homes; 
these claims are for horses and provisions, arms, ammunition, 
rations, and feed for horses; the citizens contributed to a general 
fund m money and supplies, which Maj. Ormsby received; he 
apportioned the supplies and met the expense of subsisting the men 
and horses; these claims are for the value of horses and other sup- 
plies furnished to Maj. Ormsby for the use of these volunteers; 
the claim slept from 1860 to 1891, a period of 31 years, v.dien they 
were presented as Indian depredation claims and not allowed; 
they were referred to the Court of Claims in 1900 (9 years later); 
the furnishing of the provisions and supplies for a volunteer com- 
pany of settlers defending themselves agamst the Indians does not 
in itself make any binding claim against the United States and no 
suggestions seem to have been made that the Federal Govermnent 
pay such expenses during a period of over 30 vears; laches. (S. 68, 
69, 71, 72, 74, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

New ISIexico. 

359. Francisco de Baca. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 
1905; property taken in 1862; attempted to prove claim before 
the Commissa,ry General in 1864; failed because he found the claim- 
ant did not own the property, and also that he was not loyal; slept 
for 38 years; laches. (H. 551, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

360. Edward H. Bergmann. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 
1903, after sleeping in the Court of Claims for 13 years without 
motion; property taken in 1861-1864; claim never presented to 
any department, but slept at least 36 years before reference and 13 
years after reference; laches. (H. 174, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

New York. 

361. Benjamin Fenton, survivmg partner. Referred in 1906; 
loyalty found in 1906; use and occupation of real estate, 1862-1868; 
the Government paid for the occupation of the property at the rate 
of $2,500 per annum, from August, 1866, to September, 1868; pay- 
ment was made apparently in settlement in 1870; present claim has 
slept from 1870 to 1906, a period of 36 jears; laches. (S. 199, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

North Carolina! 

362. Francis Allison. Referred in 1888; found loval in 1906, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims 18 years, which is evidence of laches; 
property taken in 1865 and the claim slept for 23 years before refer- 



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ence and 18 years after reference; laches. (H. 869, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

363. Esau Berry. Referred in 1907; found loyal in 1910; property 
taken "during the war" (no dates) ; slept for nearly 40 years without 
being presented to any department; laches. (S. 558, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

364. Eaiford Brewington. Referred in 1904; loyalty found iii 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1865; claim slept for 39 5^ears without 
being presented to any department; laches. (S. 471, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

365. WilHam H. Bucklin. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim slept for 42 years without 
being presented to any department; laches. (S. 62, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

366. Enos Case. Referred in 1892; loyalty found in 1901, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims for 9 years; property taken in 1865; 
claim slept for 37 years before reference and 9 years after reference; 
laches. (H. 442, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

367. Isadore Cohen. Referred in 1899; loyalty found in 1905, 6 
■years later; property taken in 1865; claim slept 34 years before 

reference and 6 years after reference; laches. (H. 415, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

368. Sylvester Dibble. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1865; claim slept for 40 years; laches. 
(S. 293, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

369. Wilham Howett. Referred in 1897 ; found loyal in 1899 ; stores 
and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 34 years without being 
presented to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 37, 
58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

370. Harmon Modlin. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864-65; claim slept for 41 years without 
being presented to any department of the Government; laches. 
(H. 446, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

371. David W. Morton. Referred in 1889; loyalty found in 1908, 
after sleeping for 19 years in the Court of Claims, which is evidence of 
laches; stores and supplies taken "during the war." (H. 931, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

This man wants $100 per 1,000 feet for lumber; Southern Claims 
Commission rejected his claim, because he was unable to make proof 
of it. 

372. Levi T. Oglesby. Referred in 1890 and dismissed because 
parties abandoned it; it had been presented to the Southern Claims 
Commission and then abandoned; referred again in 1904 under the 
Tucker Act; stores and supplies taken in 1863; claim slept for 41 
years; laches. (S. 176, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

373. George W. Perry. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1904; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim slept for 41 years without 
being referred to any department of the Government ; laches. (S. 187, 
58th Cong., 2d sess.) 

374. William O. Robards. RefeiTcd in 1904 ; loyalty found in 1908 ; 
property taken "durmg the Civil War"; claim slept for 40 years 
without being presented to any department of the Government ; laches. 
(S. 280, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

375. J. A. Reagan. Referred in 1911 ; loyalty found in 1911 ; stores 
and supplies taken in 1865; claim slept for 45 years without being 



52 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 290, 
62 d Cong., 2d sess.) 

Jacob West. Referred m 1895; loyalty found in 1909; slept in the 
Court of Claims 14 years, which is evidence of laches; stores and sup- 
plies taken in 1865; claim slept 30 years before reference; attempt 
was made to prove claim before Southern Claims Commission, which 
found claimant to be disloyal; laches and grave suspicion of dislovalty. 
(H. 347, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

Pennsylvania. 

377. Jacob Johnson. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; 145 kegs of powder at York; claim 
slept for 41 years; never presented to any department of the Govern- 
ment; laches. (S. 123, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

378. Augustus B. Miller. Referred m 1906; collision occurred in 
1863 between his boat and the man of war Eutaw; claim for damages; 
claim slept until 1898, for 35 years, and was never referred to any 
department; was not referred to the Court of Claims until 43 years 
after the accident ; claimant found loyal, but claim is barred by laches. 
(H. 891, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

379. John Millingar. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1906; use 
and occupation of claimant's sawmill in Tennessee, occurrmg in 
1862-63; the Quartermaster General recommended that this man be 
paid $1,771 at the time, but he refused to accept it; claim slept for 
over 43 years; laches. (H. 234, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

(Call attention of subcommittee to this item.) 

South Carolina. 

380. Angelo Buero. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1894, 6 
years later; United States military authorities used his sloop for 
2 months in 1865 and did some damage to it; not presented to the 
Southern Claims Commission under the Bowman Act, but slept for 
23 years before reference and 6 years after reference; laches. (H. 
566, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

381. Nathan Gradick. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1865; claim slept for 42 years and was not pre- 
sented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 1199, 
60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

382. James B. Howard. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1904 
after sleeping in Court of Claims for 16 years, wliich is evidence of 
laches; property taken in 1865; slept 23 years before reference to the 
Court of Claims and 16 years in Court of Claims, except that it was 
presented to the Southern Claims Commission and rejected because 
claimant was found to be disloyal. (H. 743, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

383. Board of trustees of the public schools of Darlington. Referred 
in 1908; "loyalty as an organization" found in 1911 ; it is found that 
the United States military forces occupied the buildings and grounds 
of St. John's Academy, of Darlington, "for a long time," \vithout any 
more definite statement, not even giving the year, except to say "dur- 
ing the war"; the nature of the damages done not shown at all, but 
an item of $98 for rent is found; claim slept for 43 j^ears and was 
never presented to any department. (S. 237, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

(Call attention of subcommittee to this item.) 



list of war claims. 53 

Tennessee. 

384. Josiah Anthony. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken in 1862, horses and mules; claim slept for 42 years and 
never presented to any department; laches. (H. 173, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

385. John J. Bailey. Referred in 1897; loyalty found in 1899; 
property taken in 1864; claim slept for 33 years before reference, and 
was never presented to any department of the Government; claim 
for stores and supplies; laches. (S. 58, 56th Cong., 1st sess.) 

386. Alexander F. Beckham. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 
1909 ; property taken in 1863 ; first bill introduced in Congress in 1896, 
33 years after property was taken, and never presented to any other 
department of Government; laches. (S. 65, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

387. John B. Baird. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1911, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims 8 years; stores and supplies taken in 1863- 
1865; claim slept for 38 years before being presented. (H. 344, 62d 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

388. James Boro. Referred in 1904; in 1906 it was found that the 
owner of this property, James Boro, was not loyal and that these 
claimants were found loyal simply because of their "tender years." 
The father, who was disloyal, was living during the time of the use 
and occupation for which claim is made; claim slept for 39 years and 
was not presented to any department of the Government; laches and 
disloyalty. (S. 210, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

389. lieese B. Brabson. Referred in 1908; finding made in 1909; 
did not show that Reese B. Brabson was loyal; his son, John Bowen 
Brabson, is found to have been disloyal and the other heirs are found 
loyal simply because of their "tender years"; this claim is for the 
use of real estate from 1863 to 1865; a claim for lumber, wood, and 
ties taken from the real estate amounting to $3,082.50 was paid to 
the widow of Reese B. Brabson, and a receipt in full was taken and 
no claim for rent appears to have been made; claim slept for 43 years 
after this settlement; laches and disloyalty. (S. 127, 61st Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

390. Nancy N. B. Bridges. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1901, 
after sleeping for 13 years in the Court of Claims; property taken in 
1862; claim slept 25 years before reference and never was presented 
to any department; laches. (H. 165, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

391. John C. Brooks. Referred in 1907 and loyalty found in 1911, 
based entirely upon "tender years" of claimant; use and occupation 
occurred in 1862-63; the mother of this claimant was alive during 
the war and owned a life estate in this property at the time of its 
occupation; no loyalty on her part was found and she makes no claim; 
slept for 44 years; laches. (S. 175, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

392. Octavia P. Brooks. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1903, 
after sleeping in Court of Claims for 15 years, which is evidence of 
laches; property taken in 1864; claim slept for 24 years before refer- 
ence; not presented to any department; laches. (H. 198, 58th Cong., 
3d sess.) 

393. John Brown. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1909; property 
taken in 1863-64; attempt to prove loyalty before Quartermaster 
General failed and the claim slept for over 40 years without being 
presented to any department; laches. (H. 869, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 



54 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

394. Mathew Brown. Referred in 1904; loA'alty found in 1906; 
stores and supplies taken in 1862-63; claim slept for 40 years without 
being presented to any department; laches. (S. 353, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

395. WilHam Brown. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1902; 
property taken in 1863; claim not presented to any department of 
the Government, but slept for 38 years; laches. (H. 177, 58th Cong., 
3d sess.) 

396. Elizabeth Burke. Referred in 1900; prior reference was had 
in 1885 and loyalty found, but claim was abandoned under that act; 
property taken "during the war," no dates; claim slept at least 35 
years before reference under the Tucker Act; laches. (S. 231, 57th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

397. Thomas P. Butt. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war;" no dates; claim slept for 
40 years; not presented to any department of the Government. 
(H. 301, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

398. Nelson M. Buyers. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1864; claim was disallowed by the Quartermaster 
General under act of July 4, 1864, because at that time claimant 
could not prove his loyalty; claim slept for 43 years without being 
presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 749, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

399. James F. Calhoon. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
property taken in 1862; slept for 44 years without being presented 
to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 638, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

400. James M. Campbell. Referred in 1889; loyalty found in 1905, 
16 years after reference, during which time claim slept in Court of 
Claims; which is evidence of laches; goods taken in 1864; claim slept 
for 23 years before reference without being presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (H. 324, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

401. S. L. Carpenter. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1903; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war;" claim was made to the 
Quartermaster General with no signature attached to it, and, of 
course, was ignored; second claim to the commission was not made 
until after the statute of Kmitations had barred it; the claim really 
slept for 35 years without being presented in any timely wa}^ to the 
Government; laches. (S. 86, 57th Cong., 2d sess.) 

402. Felix Carter. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1910; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war;" no date given, not even the year; 
claim slept for nearly 40 years without being presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (H. 345, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

403. Mehdna A. Carter. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1911, 
after sleeping 6 years in the Court of Claims; property taken in 1863; 
claim slept for 42 years wdthout being presented to any department; 
laches. (H. 822, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

404. Alexander Cawood. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1863; an attempt to prove this claim before the 
Quartermaster General failed, and he also failed before the Southern 
Claims Commission, because they found him disloyal under the act 
of 1871 ; claim then slept for 35 years; laches. (H. 1424, 60th Cong., 
2d sess.) 



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405. William H. Cherry. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1893, 
five years later; property was taken in 1862; claim slept for 25 years 
before reference and was not presented to the Southern Claims Com- 
mission; laches. (H. 34, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

406. John Chitwood. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1904; 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims 17 years, which is evidence of 
laches; stores and supplies taken in 1862; claim slept for 25 years 
before reference; never presented to any department; laches. (H. 
628, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

407. J. W. Cloyd. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1906; prop- 
erty taken in 1862-1864; claim slept for 39 years; never presented to 
any department of the Government; laches. (H. 809, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

408. Sylvannus Cobble. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1865; attempted to prove loyalty, but was unable 
to do' so in 1871 before the Southern Claims Commission; with that 
exception, claim slept 35 years; laches. (H. 227, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

409. Martha C.Cole. Referred in 1888; loyalty found m 1903; 
property taken ''during the war," no date given; claim slept for 25 
years before reference and then slept in the Court of Claims for 15 
years, which shows laches; not presented to any department of the 
Government; laches. (H. 379, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

410. Andrew A. Colter. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1904 
property taken '' during the war;" claim slept for 40 years and was not 
presented to any department of the Government during that time 
laches. (H. 363, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

411. Elam C. Cooper. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906 
property taken ''during the war;" claim slept for 40 years without 
being presented to any department of the Government; laches. 
(S. 404, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

412. John Coppinger. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken "during the war;" an attempt was made to prove 
loyalty before the Southern Claims Commission in 1871, but failed; 
with this exception claim slept for 30 years; laches. (H. 288, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

413. Daniel Covington. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908,' 
property taken "during the war," no dates given; an attempt to 
prove the case before the Southern Claims Commission under the act 
of 1871 failed, because plaintiff did not have the proofs; with this 
exception claim slept for over 30 years; laches. (H. 481, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

414. William Crutchfield. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 
1909; property taken in 1863; Quartermaster General allowed of this 
claim all that the claimant could prove, which was $7,026, paid to 
him in 1866 and 1867; the Southern Claims Commission, under the 
act of 1871, allowed him an additional sum of $2,544.50 for the prop- 
erty taken; claim was then allowed to sleep from 1871 to 1908, 37 
years; laches and an indication that claimant has already received 
all that he is entitled to. (S. 125, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

415. Rebecca Cummings. Referred in 1904; loyalty not satisfac- 
torily shown; property taken in 1863-64; claim slept for 40 years; 
not presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 
171, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 



56 LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 

416. Elvina Cunn3mgham. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 
1905; property taken in 1862-63; claim slept for 37 years without 
being referred to any department of the Government ; laches. (H. 498, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

417. Luckett Davis. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1891; 
case not brought on for trial until 1906, after being allowed to sleep 
for 15 years in the Court of Claims, which is evidence of laches; 
besides this, claim slept for 25 years before its reference, and was not 
presented to any other department of the Government; laches. 
(H. 360, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

418. Harriet Day. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1896, 
8 years afterwards; case was not moved for trial until 1907, 19 
years after its reference, which is evidence of laches; claimant was 
unable to prove her loyalty or her ownership of this property 
before the Southern Claims Commission, which indicates that when 
parties were alive and evidence at hand she could neither prove her 
loyalty nor ownership, all of which makes the present claim look sus- 
picious; laches. (H. 734, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

419. William H. Dawson. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1906; property taken "during the war"; claim slept for 40 years 
without being presented to any department of the Government; 
laches. (H. 414, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

420. Robert A. Dickson. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken "during the war"; claim slept for 40 years without 
being presented to any department of the Government; stores and 
supplies taken; laches. (H. 848, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

421. Lydia Dillard. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1863; claim slept 41 years without being presented 
to any clepartment; laches. (H. 626, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

422. John Doherty. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1907, 
after sleeping for 19 years in the Court of Claims, which is evidence of 
laches; not brought on for trial until 1910, 22 years after reference; 
property taken in 1862 ; claimant attempted to prove this claim before 
the Quartermaster General, and was unable to give satisfactory proof 
at the time; with that exception, never presented to anv department; 
laches. (H. 915, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

423. Adaline Elliott. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1911; 
use and occupation occurred in 1863; claim presented to the Quarter- 
master General in 1869 and by him referred to the Treasury Depart- 
ment, which rejected the claim; with that exception, slept for 40 
vears; laches. (S. 129, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

424. Thomas A. Elliott. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1911; 
use and occupation occurred in 1863, at which time claimant appears 
to have made a fair showing as to same; this claim mav have some 
merit. (S. 132, 62d Cong., '2d sess.) 

(Refer it to the subcommittee.) 

425. Warham Easley. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1903; 
property taken in 1863-64; claim slept for 40 years without being 
presented to any department of Government; laches. (H. 235, 58th 
Cong., 3d sess.) 

426. Edward W. Eggleston. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 
1907, 19 years afterwards, during which time claim slept in the Court 
of Claims, which is evidence of laches; property taken m 1863; 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 57 

slept for 25 years before reference, and never referred to any depart- 
ment of the Government; laches. (H. 389, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

427. Joseph Ewmg. Referred m 1904 ; loyalty found in 1905 ; horse 
and mule taken "durmg the war," no dates; claim slept for 40 years, 
and was never presented to any department; laches. (H. 299, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

428. Lemuel Farmer. Referred m 1888; loyalty found in 1907, 19 
years later, during which time claim slept in the Court of Claims, 
evidence of laches; property taken in 1864; slept 24 years before 
going to trial; never presented to any department; laches. (H. 358, 
60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

429. Archie B. Forbes. Referred m 1906; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1864; claim slept for 42 years without being- 
presented to any department of Government; laches. (H. 378, 59th 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

430. Rial Foster. Referred in 1904 ; loyalty found in 1906 ; property 
taken in 1863; slept for 41 years without being presented to any 
department; laches. (H. 627, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

431. Hiram Gailey. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken "during the war," no dates given, not even the year; 
claim slept 40 years without being presented to any department of 
the Government; laches. (H. 122. 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

432. Z. H. German. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1906, 18 
years after reference, during which time claim slept m Court of 
Claims, which is evidence of laches; property taken in 1864; claim 
slept 24 years before reference and was never presented to any 
department; laches. (H. 225, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

433. Samuel L. Gilson. Referred in 1892; loyalty found in 1904, 
12 years later; during which time claim was allowed to sleep in Court 
of Claims, which is evidence of laches; property taken "during the 
war;" claim rejected by the Quartermaster General because claim- 
ant was unable to make proof under the act of 1864; claim slept for 
28 years before reference; laches. (H. 557, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

434. Minna H. Glassie. Referred in 1901; Minna H. Glassie and 
her brother Joseph are found to have been loyal because of their 
^'tender years;" the other sister, Emma, was found to be disloyal; 
the findings appear to ignore Joseph Glassie, and are not satisfactory 
as to loyalty; the claim slept for 38 years before reference, and does 
not appear to have been presented to any department of Govern- 
ment; this claim is for supplies; laches. (S. 191, 59th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

435. George B. Harlan. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1862; this claim, to the extent of $1,075, was 
allowed by a board in the department of the Cumberland in 1863, but 
was not paid, and it was afterwards rejected by the Southern Claims 
Commission because they found that claimant had gone through 
banki'uptcy in 1871 and received his discharge, by which he was de- 
prived of his title to any property; claim slept from 1871 to 1906, a 
period of 35 years without being further prosecuted; laches. (H. 
37, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) (Call attention of subcommittee to this 
claim.) 

436. Daniel B. Harold. Referred in 1910; loyalty found in 1910; 
property taken in 1864-65; claim slept for 45 3^ears, and was not pre- 
sented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 908, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 



58 LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 

437. Thomas C. Hawley. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken "during the war;" claim presented to a board of the 
State of Tennessee, together Avith Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, 
in 1868, and approved by them, but never approved by any tribunal 
of the United States, and never presented to any such tribunal until 
this reference; slept for 44 years; laches. (S. 242, 61st Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

438. John Haynes. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1907, after 
sleeping for 19 years in the Court of Claims; property' taken in 1863; 
claim slept for 25 years before reference, and 19 years after reference; 
not presented to any other department; laches. (H. 413, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

439. F. S. Heiskell. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken in 1863-64; claim slept for 38 vears, and was not pre- 
sented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 796, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

440. John Henson. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1904, after 
sleeping in Court of Claims for 16 years, which is evidence of laches; 
property taken in 1864-65; claim slept for 24 years before reference, 
and 16 years after reference, and was not presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (H. 333, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

441. John A. Herrod. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1900, 
10 years later; property taken in 1863; claim slept for 27 years 
before reference and 10 years after reference and not presented to 
any other department of the Government; laches. (H. 502, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

442. John W. Hester. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken "during the war"; claim slept for 40 years without 
being presented to any department of the Government; laches. 
(S. 271, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

443 . Charles W. Hewgley. Referred in 1888 ; loyalty found in 1 906, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims for 18 years, wliich is e\adence 
of laches; property taken in 1862; claim slept 28 years before refer- 
ence and 18 years after reference; never presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (H. 568, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

444. John R. Hickman. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1863; claim slept 45 years without being presented 
to any department of Government; laches. (H. 906, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

445. Henry E. HilHard. Tliis claim has already been paid by the 
Government. (See 33 Stat., pt. 1, p. 768.) 

446. Catherine Hopson. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909: 
property taken ''during the war" ; claim slept 40 years without being 
presented to any department of Government; laches. (H. 48, 62d 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

447. Thomas Hord. Referred in 1903; %alty found in 1904; 
property taken in 1863; claim slept for 40 years Avithout being pre- 
sented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 32, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

448. Brice M. Hughes. Claim referred in 1888; loyalty found in 
1908, 20 years after sleeping in Court of Claims; evidence of laches; 
property taken in 1863-64; Quartermaster General in 1864 refused 
to allow the claim because the evidence did not show that it was a 

ust claim; claim slept for 24 years before reference and was not 



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brought on for trial for 22 years after reference; laches. (H. 462^ 
62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

449. Hugh C. Jackson. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken ''during the Civil War;" Quartermaster General 
rejected this claim because no receipts or vouchers could be produced 
showing that the mihtary authorities had received it from claimant; 
never presented to any other department of the Government; slept 
for 40 years; laches. (H. 57, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

450. David Jameson. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1902; 
use and occupation occurred in 1862-63; claim referred under the 
Bowman Act and in 1884 it was dismissed for want of prosecution, 
which shows bad faith of claimant and his neglect; with that excep- 
tion, never referred to any other department of the Goverimient and 
slept for 37 years; laches. (S. 335, 57th Cong., 1st sess.) 

451. Henry Johnson. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1911; 
property ''taken during the war," no dates given; this claim was 
rejected by the Quartermaster General, also by the Commissioner 
General; also by the Southern Clamis Commission, because not found 
to have merit; the findings of the Court of Claims not made until 
1912, after this claim had been rejected three times, and 47 years 
after the war closed; no dates given when property was taken and 
the items claimed are for 350 bushels of corn, 10 tons of hay, 340 
sheaves of oats, and 65 sacks of salt. It seems to be a very doubtful 
policy, after this clami has been rejected three times when the parties 
were alive and near to the tune when evidence on both sides could 
be secured, and after a period of 47 years has elapsed, to make an 
appropriation for the administrator of deceased claimant. (H. 542, 
62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

(Refer this to subcommittee.) 

452. Mrs. Pettie Light Johnston and Mrs. Scrappy Light Bradshaw. 
Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1908, 20 years later, during which 
time the claim slept in the Court of Claims, which is evidence of 
laches. Property taken "during the Civil War," no dates given. 
The Quartermaster General rejected this claim, because he was not 
satisfied of the loyalty of the mother of claimants; claim slept for 
25 years before reference and 20 years after reference; laches. (H. 
58, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

453. Nathaniel W. Jones. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 
1905; property taken "during the war," no dates given, not even 
the year; claim slept for 40 years without being presented to any 
department; laches. (S. 431, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

454. Henry J. Kinzel. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1863-64; Quartermaster General rejected the claim 
because he was not satisfied from the evidence of its justice; claim 
slept for 43 years without being presented to any other department 
of the Government; laches. (H. 473, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

455. John Krider. Referred in 1891; loyalty found in 1903, 12 
years after reference and not brought on for trial until 1906, 15 years 
after reference, during wliich time it slept in the Court of Claims, 
which is evidence of laches; claim slept 28 years before reference, 
because property was taken in 1862-63; never presented to any 
department before reference; laches. (H. 327, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

456. William H. Landrum. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 
1902, under some prior reference wliich must have been abandoned,* 



60 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

property taken in 1863; claim slept for 43 years %\'itliout being pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (H. 740, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

457. Annis Lawrence. Referred in 1891; loyalty found in 1903, 
12 years later; not moved for trial until 1905, 14 years after reference; 
evidence of laches; property taken in 1863-64; claim slept for 38 
years before reference without being presented to any department; 
laches. (H. 362, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

458. Joe. Lester. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; prop- 
erty taken in 1864; claim slept for 42 years without being presented 
to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 1145, 60th 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

459. Abner D. Lewis (resident of Arkansas). Referred in 1884; 
loyalty found in 1886; claim slept before finding of loyalty for 12 
years; not brought on for trial at aU under that reference, but aban- 
doned, because barred by the statute of limitations; referred again 
in 1896 under the Tucker Act; not brought on for trial until 1900, 
four years after reference; stores and supplies taken in Arkansas in 
1863-64; findings do not show that the property was taken by any 
authority and the Court of Claims finds that the evidence does not 
show that the cottonseed oil and lint cotton charged to have been 
taken were ever used by the military forces of the United States, or 
ever came into the possession of any agent of the United States; the 
Court of Claims further expressly finds that there has been delay and 
laches in presenting the claim; that it was barred under the act of 
1873 and, with the exception of the first reference and abandonment, 
the claim slept for 33 years before reference. (S. 85, 56th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

460. Elizabeth Lewis. Referred in 1908, loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1863; attempt to prove claim before the Quarter- 
master General under the act of 1864 failed because claim could not 
be proved; slept for 44 years without being presented to any other 
department; laches. (H. 380, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

461. Benjamin Lillard. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken in 1862-63; claim slept for 40 years before ref- 
erence; was not presented to any other department; laches. (H. 
148, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

462. Charity M. Locke. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 1903; 
property taken in 1864; claim slept for 34 years before reference and 
was not presented to any department; laches. (S. 91, 58th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

463. James G. Logan. Referred in 1892; loyalty found in 1909, 
17 years after reference, during which time the claim slept without 
being moved in the Court of Claims; evidence of laches; property 
taken in 1862; slept 30 years before reference without being presented 
to any other department of the Government; laches. (H. 346, 62d 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

464. John McClarin. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1903, 
15 years after reference, during which time the claim slept in the 
Court of Claims, which is evidence of laches; property taken in 1865 
and slept for 25 years before reference; never presented to any other 
department of the Government; laches. (H. 80, 62d Cong., 1st sess.) 

465. George W. McGrew. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1863; claim rejected by the Quartermaster General 
in 1878, because claimant was not able by proof to satisfy Mm that 



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the claim was just; claim then slept for 28 years; the fact that the 
claimant was unable at the early date when the evidence was fresh 
and accessible to prove his claim before the Quartermaster General 
throws a suspicion upon the proofs made 28 years afterwards of his 
loss; laches; stores and supplies taken in 1863. (S. 150, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

466. David V. Marney. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1864; rejected by the Quartermaster General under 
the act of 1864 as an unjust claim; it then slept for 40 years without 
being presented to any other department; laches. (H. 902, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

467. Wilham M. Mayfxeld. Referred in 1888 : loyalty found in 1907, 
after the claim had slept in the Court of Claims without being moved 
for trial for 19 years, which is evidence of laches; property taken 
''during the war"; no dates given, not even the year; property taken 
in Alabama ; claim was filed -with the Southern Claims Commission and 
then abandoned; no proof made; slept at least 24 years before refer- 
ence and grossly neglected after reference ; laches. (H. 384, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

468. James E. Meacham. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1863: claim slept for 41 years without being pre- 
sented to anv department; laches: stores and supplies taken and 
rent. (S. 190, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

469. Patrick G. Meath. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1862-63; claim for the personal propert}^, without 
rent or damage, was presented to the Southern Claims Commission 
and then abandoned and afterwards dismissed for want of prosecu- 
tion; claim for rent never presented; with this single exception of 
presenting and abandoning the claim it slept for 38 vears; laches. 
(S. 180, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

470. City of Memphis. Referred in 1900; loyalty not found; use 
and occupation in 1863-1866; in 1876 the city made a claim before 
the Southern Claims Commission for the rent of this property for 2 J 
years beginning April 2, 1866, and collected $9,358.99, which was 
paid in 1878; this claim is made for the period between 1863 and 1866; 
there was no law authorizing the payment of rent for the period 
prior to 1866, although President Lincoln took the State of Tennessee 
out of the insurrectionary column on January 1, 1863; the claim slept 
for 40 years; laches. (S. 75, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

471. James P. Moore. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken "during the war"; no dates given; claim slept for 40 
years without being referred to any department; laches. (H. 322, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

472. Henry M. Neely. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1862; an attempt to prove claim before the Quar- 
termaster General under the act of 1873 was rejected because the 
proof submitted did not satisfy him that it was a just claim; it then 
slept for 35 years longer without being presented to any department; 
laches. (H. 690, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

473. Samuel B. Nelson. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken "during the war"; no dates given; claim slept for 40 
years without being presented to any department; laches. (H. 119, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 



62 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

474. B. B. Neville. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken "at different times during the war"; nothing more 
definite as to date; claim slept for 40 years without being presented 
to any other department; laches. (S. 14, 5Sth Cong., 3d sess.) 

475. Oswell R. Newby. Referred in 1886 and dismissed; referred 
in 1887 and dismissed; barred because not presented to the Southern 
Claims Commission; referred again in 1900 under the Tucker Act and 
loyalty found in 1906 after sleeping for 6 years in Court of Claims; 
use and occupation from 1862 to 1865; laches. (S. 179, 59th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

476. W. W. Newhouse. Referred in 1895; loyalty found in 1895; 
not brought on for trial until 1911, 16 years after reference, during 
which time claim slept in Court of Claims without a motion; stores 
and supplies taken "during the war," no dates given; Quarter- 
master General, under the act of 1864, rejected this claim; laches. 
(H. 445, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

477. John North. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1910; prop- 
erty taken in 1864; claim slept for 42 years without being presented 
to any department; laches. (H. 1297, 61st Cong., 3d sess.) 

478. Charles N. Ordway. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1905, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims for 17 years; brought on for trial 
in 1908, 20 years after reference; evidence of laches; property taken 
"during the war," no dates named, not even the year; slept 25 years 
before reference and 20 years in the Court of Claims after reference; 
no other presentment; laches. (H. 863, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

479. Overton Hotel Co. Referred in 1885; loyalty found in 1887 
and then dismissed; referred again in 1896; use and occupation, 
1862-1865; under first reference this claim was dismissed by the Court 
of Claims on the merits; under the last reference it was shown that 
the Union forces took this property from the possession of the Con- 
federate Army, but the Court of Claims decided in the last reference 
that the Government should pay the rent after it took possession of 
this propertj^ and fijsed the amount due at $53,333, and the amount 
was paid by an appropriation; the present claim is for $11,000 more 
and is evidence of the greex:! — almost vulgar greed — manifested by 
attorneys who are not willing to stop even with a fair and just pay- 
ment of a claim. In this year of our Lord 1912, after the payment of 
this large amount, a brief is filed by counsel seeking to open up this 
old and stale claim, which has been dealt with already with unusual 
liberality, for the purpose of having, what he claims, some error cor- 
rected under which the Government is to present the claimant $11,000 
more, which is without equity. (S. 6, 55th Cong., 2d sess.) 

480. Alexander M. Owen. Referred in 1898 ; loyalty found in 1907, 
nine years after reference; property taken in 1863; slept for 35 years 
without presentment. (H. 441, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

481. Mary Parker. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1903, al- 
though there is nothing to show why a finding of loyalty should be 
made a year before the claim was referred; property taken in 1863-64; 
claim slept for 40 years without presentment; laches. (H. 176, 58th 
Cong., 3d sess.) 

482. Henly Patton. Referred in 1907 ; loyalty found in 1908 ; prop- 
erty taken in 1864; Quartermaster General, under the act of 1864, 
rejected tliis claim because claimant was not able to estabhsh his loy- , 
alty. It seems strange that at the time when the claimant was alive 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 63 

and the war was going on and evidence everywhere at hand he could 
not estabhsh his loyalty, and that he should not do so until 43 years 
later, during which time the claim slept without being presented to 
anv department; laches. (H. 383, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

483. John R. Pearson. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1902; 
property taken in 1862-1864; stores and supplies; claim slept for 
over 40 vears without being presented to any department; laches. 
(H. 233, ''59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

484. Henry Pepper and Elizabeth H. Cleveland. Referred in 
1905; loyalty found in 1906; property taken in 1862-63; claim 
slept for 42 years wdthout being presented to anv department; 
laches. (S. 472, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

485. Octavia R. Polk. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1862; claim slept for 42 years without present- 
ment; laches. (S. 326, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

486. Nimrod Porter. Referred in 1886; loyalty found in 1910, 
after sleeping for 24 years in Court of Claims without being moved, 
which is evidence of laches; stores and supplies taken in 1864; 
Southern Claims Commission rejected this claim because they found 
that the claimant was not loyal; it looks suspicious when the claim- 
ant at the time was unable to establish his loyalty, that his legal 
representatives should be able to do so 46 years afterwards; claim 
slept for 40 years; laches. (H. 321, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

487. William Raines. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken "during the war", no other dates given; claim slept 
for 40 years without being presented to any department; laches. 
(H. 368, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

488. James S. Read. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1907, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims for 19 years, which is evidence 
of laches; property taken in 1864; claim slept for 24 years before 
reference and 19 years after reference; not presented to anj^ other 
department; laches. (H. 386, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

489. Lewellan Rhodes. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1889; 
claim not brought on for hearing until 1908, after sleeping in Court 
of Claims for 20 years, which is evidence of laches; stores and sup- 
plies taken ''during the war," no dates given, not even the year; 
slept for 25 years before reference without being presented to any 
other department; laches. (H. 660, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

490. Margaret Roberston. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 
1909; propert}^ taken ''during the war," no date given, not even 
the 3^ear; an attempt to make proof before the Southern Claims 
Commission in 1879 failed; the claim slept with that exception for 
41 years; after the attempt before the Southern Claims Commission 
claim slept for 27 years; laches. (H. 531, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

491. Jane Elizabeth Rodes. Referred m 1888; loyalty found in 
1903, 13 years later, during which time the claim slept in the Court of 
Claims, which is evidence of laches; stores and supplies taken in 1864; 
claim slept for 24 years before reference and 16 years after reference 
and was not presented to anv other department of the Government; 
laches. (H. 888, 59th Cong.^ 1st sess.) 

492. James W. Roulston. Referred m 1888; loyalty found in 1903, 
15 years after reference, during which time claim slept in Court of 
Claims; not brought on for trial until 1906, 18 years after reference, 



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all of which is evidence of indifference and laches; property taken in 
1862; claim rejected by the Southern Claims Commission and they 
found that the proof and evidence was insufficient; the original 
claimant went through bankruptcy proceedings which divested him 
of any title he had; laches. (H. 404, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

493. Thomas D. Ruffin. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1864; claim slept for 40 years without being pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (S. 468, 59tli Cong., 1st sess.) 

494. W. J. Sawyers. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1909, 
five years later; property taken "during the war," no date given; 
rejected by the Quartermaster General under the act of 1864, because 
he was satisfied that the Union Army did not take the property; 
with this exception claim slept for 40 years. (S. 3, 61st Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

495. Juha Moore Selden. Referred in 1908 ; loyalty found in 1909; 
use and occupation from 1863 to 1866; loA^alty in this case is based 
upon "tender years " of the claimant; claim slept for 33 years without 
being presented to any department. (S. 99, 56th Cong., 2d sess.) 

496. W. W. Sharp. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1904, after 
sleeping in the Court of Claims 17 years, and was not brought on for 
trial in the Court of Claims until 1907, 20 years after reference, which 
shows indilference and small faith in the justice of the claim; property 
taken "during the war;" laches. (H. 630, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

497. John Smith. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1863; claim slept for 40 years without being pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (H. 387, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

498. Margaret E. Smith. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1863; the Southern Claims Commission said in its 
imding rejecting the claim that "it had no confidence in the testi- 
mony;" with above exception, claim slept for 45 years; laches. 
(H. 385, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

499. Warren F. Speed. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken in 1863, and claim slept for 41 years without being 
presented to any department; laches. (H. 642, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

500. Sallie B'. Stamper. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1863; claim slept for 41 years without being pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (H. 877, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

501. MarkStone. Referred in 1904; lo3^alty found in 1905; property 
taken "during the war;" no date given, not even the year; Quarter- 
master General rejected the claim because he said he was not con- 
vinced that the Union Army took the property; otherwise, claim slept 
for 40 years and was not presented to any department; laches. (H. 
300, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

502. M. T. Swick. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1906; property 
taken "during the war"; no date given, not even the year; claim 
slept for more than 40 years without being presented to any depart- 
ment; laches. (S. 287, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

503. Mary F. Swindell. Referred in 1910; loyalty found in 1910; 
use and occupation, 1862-1866; Quartermaster General rejected this 
claim under the act of 1864, because not established to his satisfaction; 
this occurred in 1867; claim was referred under the Bowman Act in 
1902 and then abandoned; with this exception claim slept for 44 years; 
laches. (S. 559, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 



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504. Isaac Tipton. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1904;'property 
taken " during the war" ; no date given, not even the year; claim slept 
for 33 years without being presented to any department of Govern- 
ment; laches. (H. 230, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

505. George Todd. Referred in 1889; loyalty found in 1907, 16 years 
later, during which time claim slept in tlie Court of Claims, which is 
evidence of laches and indifferences and lack of faith in the justice 
of the claim; property taken in 1864; claim slept for 25 years before 
reference and 16 years after reference; laches. (H. 359, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

606. J. J. Todd. Referred in 1897 ; loyalty found in 1900 : property 
taken " during the war" ; no date given; the findings in this case tend 
to shake one's confidence in these claims. The Court of Claims finds: 
(1) There was taken from the administrator, N. C. Perldns, during 
the War of the Rebellion, in Shelby County, in the State of Tennessee, 
by the military forces of the United States for the use of the Army, 
stores and supplies worth the sum of 15,684; it does not show that 
the property was taken by authority; (2) the plantations from which 
these stores and supplies are claimed to have been taken belonged to 
J. J. Todd at the commencement of the war; he died in August, 
1861 , lea^nng most of his property to his daughter, Mrs. Newton C. 
Perkins, by will; she is the wife of the administrator, N. C. Perkins, 
who presents this claim; this daughter, Mrs. Perkins, was married in 
November, 1861, when she was 18 years old; her husband, who 
appears to be the administrator presenting this claim, was a captain 
in the Confederate Army and was appointed administrator of the 
estate of his wife's father in February, 1862; this administrator was 
a captain in the Confederate Army and the property was taken from 
him while he was in the service of the Confederate Army in that 
capacity; yet a claim is made by him as administrator of the estate of 
his father-in-law, in which estate his wiie is the heir, for the value of 
the property alleged to have been taken; this Confederate captain 
resigned his position in the Confederate Army after his marriage and 
the findings state that he devoted his attention to the care of his 
^vife's property. , The attempt to comply with the provision requiring 
that loyalty be shown is embraced in the following very remarkable 
finding: "Mrs. Perkins desired her husband to keep out of the Con- 
federate service; she did not desire him to take up arms; she did not 
wish him to join either army; after the war actually began, she did 
not desire the subjugation of the South and she did not wish for the de- 
feat of the Confederacy to secure the perpetuity of the Union. It 
does not appear that she gave assistance or practical sympathy on 
either side." (S. 15, 56th Cong., 2d sess.) 

607. Alpheus Truett. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1863; the Quartermaster General rejected this claim 
under the act of 1864, because proof did not satisfy him that the 
claimant was loyal; it does not appear to have been presented under 
the act of 1874, and was barred with the above exception; claim 
slept for 40 years and was not presented to any other department; 
laches. (H. 640, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

608. William L. Vance. Referred m 1892; loyalty found in 1895; 
property taken in 1864 in Mississippi in what is designated "the 
enemy's country"; claim was referred under the Bowman Act and 
dismissed for want of jurisdiction; property was captured and taken 

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from the Confederates as an act of war; it was not taken for use as 
stores and supplies, but as property of the enemy captured in war; 
Gen. Sherman decided that it became the absohite property of the 
United States; the Court of Claims, under the last reference, decided 
that Gen. Sherman was wrong in holding that the Government 
secured the absolute title to this property by capture as an act of war; 
but also found that there was no competent evidence that the cotton 
captured or taken had been sold by the Government, as claimed by- 
claimant, to the firm of Topp & Vance, and the claimant's title rests 
upon the claim that it was so sold; a military board of Army officers 
in 1864 found that the said firm of Topp & Vance owned the property, 
but the last tribunal passing upon it fails to find that fact; the claim 
was not presented to the Quartermaster General nor to the Southern 
Claims Commission; the militar}^ tribunal, which in 1864 found that 
Topp & Vance were the owners, was a board of officers appointed by 
Gen. McPherson at Vicksburg, and their findings were subject to the 
approval of the commanding general, William Tecumseh Sherman. 
The Court of Claims finds that on the 6th day of June, 1864, ''Gen. 
Sherman disapproved the recommendation of the board and decided 
that the property was vested by capture in the United States abso- 
lutely. The cotton claimed by Topp & Vance, therefore, continued to 
be held at Vicksburg as captured property," and was afterwards 
used under an order of Gen. Slocum on August 8, 1864, to satisfy a 
claim of one James Nolan, from whom cotton had been taken under 
authority by the United States forces for use by the Army. This 
claim appears to have slept from that time in 1864 until its first 
reference to the Court of Claims under the Bowman Act, under 
which the court dismissed it, because barred by the act of 1871. 
Nothing further was done until its reference in 1892. In its present 
status the title of the claimant in the property does not appear to 
have been established; the decision of tne military board was over- 
ruled by Gen. Sherman, and the Court of Claims, under the first 
reference, dismissed the case for want of jurisdiction; the Court of 
Claims under the last reference found that there is not sufficient com- 
petent evidence to show ownership in the claimant; the claim was not 
presented to the Quartermaster General nor to the Southern Claims 
Commission; the property was taken as stores and supplies for the use 
of the Army, but was property captured in war. (S. 22, 54th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

509. Ezekiah W. Walker. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 
1909; property taken in 1863; rejected by the Southern Claims 
Commission under the act of 1871, because claimant was not able to 
prove his loyalty; with that exception, claim slept for 35 years and 
was not presented to any other department of the Government; dis- 
loyalty found under the act of 1871; laches and suspicion as to the 
reliability of proofs that claimant was loyal; submitted in 1909, 46 
years after property was taken; laches. (H. 382, 61st Cong.; 2d 

S6SS ) 

510. Jesse A. Wallace. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken in 1863; claim slept for 42 years, except that the 
claimant was unable to satisfy the Quartermaster General of the 
justice of liis claim under the act of 1864; laches. (H. 698, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 67 

511. Mary E. Walters. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1862; claim slept for 46 years without being pre- 
sented; laches. (H. 966, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

512. A. J. Wigiesworth. Referred in 1886; loyalty found in 1890; 
€ase not brought on for trial until 1909, 23 years after reference, 
during which time it slept in the Court of Claim^s, which is evidence 
of neglect, indifference, and lack of faith in the justice of the claim; 
property taken ''during the Civil War," no dates given, not even the 
year; claim rejected by the Commissary General because claimant 
was not able to satisfy him of the justice of it; slept 20 years before 
reference and 24 years after reference; laches. (H. 56, 61st Cong., 
1st sess.) 

513. Joseph R. Williams. Referred in 1901; lot'alty found in 
1902; use and occupation from 1862 to 1865; claim slept for 36 
years without being presented to any department of the Government; 
laches. (S. 27, 57th Cong., 2d sess!) 

514. George T. Wilson. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1864; rejected by the Quartermaster General 
under the act of 1864, because claimant was not able to establish his 
claim; otherwise it slept for 44 years without being presented to any 
department of the Government; laches. (H. 578, 61st Cong., 2d 

SGSS ) 

515. WiUiam S. Wilson. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1901; 
case not brought on for trial until 16 years after reference, during 
which time it slept in the Court of Claims, which is evidence of 
laches; property taken in 1863; claim slept 37 years before reference 
and 16 years after reference; was rejected by the Commissary General 
under the act of 1864 because of no proof; laches. (H. 661, 61st 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

516. Nancy Wright. Referred in 1889; loyalty found in 1895, 
six 3'-ears later; property taken ''during the Civil War;" rejected by 
the Quartermaster General because the claimant was not able to 
prove the claim; laches. (H. 662, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

517. Cleveland Masonic Lodge. Referred in 1906; loyalty found 
in 1908; use and occupation as a guardhouse for 6 months; evidence 
of the damage to the building is not satisfactory or shown; claim not 
presented to any department of the Government, but slept for 37 
years; laches. (S. 194, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

518. Clifton Lodge No. 173, Free and Accepted Masons of Clifton. 
Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1907; use and occupation for 
eight months, from December, 1863, to September, 1864, after which 
building was destroyed by Federal troops; it does not appear that 
the destruction of the building was by authority or that the mate- 
rials were used; neither does it apjDcar that it was an act of military 
necessitv; claim slept for 39 years and never presented to any depart- 
ment. \S. 53, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

519. Franklin Lodge No. 4, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 1906; this building was destroyed 
during the battle of Franklin, and was an act of war while the battle 
was in progress; it does not appear that the soldiers set fire to the 
building by authority, but it was done during the battle, and the 
property was not taken for use, but its destruction was an act of 
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68 LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 

to facilitate the movements of the Army; claim never presented to 
any department of the Government and slept from November, 1864, 
when the building was burned, until its reference in 1901, a period of 
37 years. (S. Ill, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 
(Refer to subcommittee.) 

520. Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, State of 
Tennessee. Referred in 1907 ; loyalty found in 1908 ; the Grand Lodge 
of Tennessee makes this claim as the successor of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows at Lynnville, Tenn.; the building belonging 
to the Lynnville Lodge was used in September, 1863, b}'- the United 
States military forces as a smallpox hospital, and afterwards, under 
orders, the building was burned down; claim never presented to any 
department of the Government, but slept for 43 years; the local lodge 
at Lynnville is making no claim, but the claim is presented b}' the 
Grand Lodge of the State of Tennessee; laches. (S. 238, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

521. Harpeth Academy, Franklin. Referred in 1907; loyalty 
found in 1908; Court of Claims finds that the miUtary forces of the 
United States took possession of the building belonging to this college 
and used it as barracks for their troops, and while so using it the 
building caught fire and was burned down. The court says: 

The e^ddence does not disclose the origin of the fire nor whether accidental or 
otherwise. 

Claim was never presented to any department of the Government 
until its reference; it does not give the date when the building was 
burned, and may have been burned during the battle; evidence not 
very satisfactory upon that point and the claim slept for over 40 years 
before its reference. (S. 481, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

522. Hiram Lodge No. 7, Free and Accepted Masons, of Franklui. 
Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; use and occupation ''at 
various times" from 1861-1865; no description of the character, 
value, or quality of the building is given; the nature of the damages 
not described; claim slept for 39 years and was not presented to any 
department of the Government; laches. (S. 39, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

523. Hiwassee Lodge, No. 188, of Calhoun. Referred in 1906; loy- 
alty found in 1908; use and occupation from November, 1863, to June 
15, 1865, as a hospital; it is claimed that the property was damaged 
because portholes were made through its walls; claim never pre- 
sented to any department of the Government, but slept for 41 years; 
the fact that portholes were made through the walls indicates that its 
use and occupation was an act of military necessity. (S. 173, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

524. Howard Lodge No. 13, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of 
Gallatin. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1908; tliis lodge owned 
and maintained a female institute, which between the years 1862-1865 
was occupied by the United States military forces for a hospital, and 
certain damages were sustained by the property and certain other 
property was taken by the troops; claim was referred under the 
Bowman Act in 1889 and abandoned; it was never presented to any 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. . 69 

department of Government and slept for 39 years; this claim is for 
the rent of the buildings and damages. (S. 239, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 
(Refer to subcommittee.) 

525. Humboldt Female College (G. S. Lannom, receiver of), Gibson 
County. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; the building 
belonging to this college occupied by the United States military forces 
in the year 1862, and while so used as a hospital was accidentally 
burned down; the college is not now a going concern, but is out of 
business; G. S. Lannom was appointed receiver of the defunct con- 
cern in 1904 and makes this claim as receiver; whether the college has 
any creditors or not, or who will get the money, if paid, does not 
appear; the claim slept 42 years and was not presented to any depart- 
ment of the Government; the property had been destroyed for 40 
years when this receiver was appointed; laches; no reason why the 
Government should pay this claim to a receiver of a defunct concern 
at this late date. (S. 118, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

526. Methodist Episcopal Church, Triune. Referred in 1906; loy- 
alty found in 1907; in the fall of 1863 the United States military 
forces took possession of this church building and while camped 
around the premises the building was destroyed by fire; it was not 
destroyed by any order or authority of the niilitary forces, and does 
not show whether the destruction was accidental or by design; after 
the property was destroyed, the bricks and building stone were used 
by the military forces; the claim is for the value of the building; it 
would seem that under these circumstances, the burning having been 
accidental and not by authority, the Government should simply pay 
for the material, but the value of the material is not given. (H. 714, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

Texas. 

527. Gertrude O'Bannon. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 
1909; stores and supplies taken "during the war;" the loyalty of 
claimant rests upon " tender years"; she was born in 1850 and became 
of age in 1871; claim slept for 33 years after she became of age, and 
was not referred to any department; laches. (S. 223, 61st Cong., 
2d sess.) 

528. Mary A. Shaw. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken "during the war"; claim slept for over 40 years and 
was not presented to any department of the Government; laches. 
(S. 221, 58th Cong., 2d sess.) 

529. Robert M. Wilhams. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 
1908; property taken in 1862; claim slept for 44 years without being 
presented to any department; laches. (H. 535, 60th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

Virginia. 

530. Alfred Anderson. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1889; 
property taken in 1865; claim not brought on for trial in the Court 
of Claims until 1909; slept there 22 years, from 1887 to 1909, which 
is evidence of want of faith and of indifference and neglect and 
laches; besides, claim slept for 22 years before reference, except that 



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an attempt was made to prove it before the Southern Clamis Com- 
mission in 1871 and failed because claimant could not show merit; 
laches. (H. 1472, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

531. Mary Anderson. Referred in 1903; property taken in 
1861-1865; loyalty not satisfactory; Col. Miner, the owner of the 
property taken, is found to have been disloyal; he died during the 
war and left this property to Mary Anderson, his daughter, who 
died in 1865; it does not appear that there was an administration of 
the estate and distribution during the war; a claim was made to the 
Quartermaster General in 1865, but no proof was submitted and 
action taken; Mary Anderson, the daughter, found to have been 
loyal; claim slept for 38 years and was not presented to any other 
department; laches. (S. 83, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

532. Hannah T. Cromwell. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 
1904, based upon "tender years" ; property taken m 1862; submitted 
to the Southern Claims Commission under a claim for rent and occu- 
pation, which was rejected, but no claim for personal property was 
presented; this claim for personal property taken slept for 41 years 
without being presented to any department; laches. (S. 420, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

533. John H. Baker. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1907; 
property taken in 1862; claim presented to the Southern Claims Com- 
mission under the act of 1871 and claimant was found to be loyal, 
and at that time all of his claims were allowed and paid except the 
item presented here, which is for tobacco ; this claim for tobacco slept 
for 40 years and was not presented to any department of the Govern- 
ment; the Court of Claims does not find that the tobacco was taken 
by authority of the United States, or that it was appropriated and 
used by the United States; it simply states that it was taken by the 
military forces of the United States ; the Southern Claims Commission 
allowed all the claims of claimant for losses presented, except for 
this tobacco, and under a subsequent prior reference under the 
Tucker Act to the Court of Claims the claims were allowed and fully 
paid with the single exception of the claim for this tobacco ; no appro- 
priation should be made for this article, because the findings do not 
show that it was taken by authority or appropriated to the use of 
the military force; laches. (S. 217, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

534. Robert N. Blake. Referred in 1903; loyalty found m 1906; 
property taken "during the Civil War"; claim slept for 38 years 
before reference; laches. (S. 198, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

535. Theodoric Bland. Referred in 1899; the two older children 
of deceased owner were found disloyal ; the other claimants w^ere found 
loyal simply because of their "tender years"; property was taken in 
1864-65; the father of these children died in 1859 or 1860, leaving a 
wife, Mary Bland, and five children, to whom he left his property by 
last will and testament; the widow, Mary Bland, died about 1861; it 
does not appear whether the estate was administered and the prop- 
erty distributed under the will before it was taken or not; the claim 
was never presented to any department of the Government until its 
reference in 1899, and slept for 35 years; laches. (H. 429, 59th 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

530. Lemuel J. Bowden. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1904 
(does not show how loyalty could be found before the case had been 
referred to the Court of Claims) ; claim is for use and occupation for 



LIST OF WAS CLAIMS. 71 

certain real estate from 1861 to 1865; the property belonged to the 
heirs of Lemuel J. Bowden, who died in the city of Washington on 
the 2d day of January, 1864, while serving as a Senator from the 
State of Virginia in the Senate of the United States; the property 
in question was located at Williamsburg; Lemuel J. Bowden is found 
<"o have been loyal; it is claimed that the Union forces took posses- 
sion of two dwelling houses belonging to him in the city of Williams- 
burg in 1862 and occupied the same to the end of the war; the claim 
slept from 1865 until its reference in 1905 and was never presented 
to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 63, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

537. Francis N. Brabham. Referred in 1902; loj^alty found in 
1905; property taken "during the war"; claim slept for 40 years 
before findings were made and 37 3^ears before reference; was not 
presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 695, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

538. John B. Brown. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1904; 
is for use and occupation of real estate for over 3 years during the 
war and for damages to the estate; a claim for damages was pre- 
sented to the Southern Claims Commission and appears to have been 
allowed and paid, but the claim as thus presented and paid did not 
include a claim for use and occupation, and this claim is for use and 
occupation alone, for which no claim was ever presented for over 40 
years until 1904, during all of which period the claim slept; the first 
bill for relief introduced in Congress was not until 1901, and reference 
to the Court of Claims was not made until 1904, after the expiration 
of the 40 years; laches. (S. 359, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

539. AVilliam Burley. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken "during the war"; case not brought on for trial until 
1911, 5 years after reference; claim slept 40 3^ears before reference; 
not presented to any other department of the Government; laches; 
stores and supplies taken. (H. 361, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

540. CaroKne Carter. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1902; 
property taken "during the war"; claim slept for 35 years before 
reference without being presented to any other department; laches. 
(S. 67, 57th Cong., 2d sess.) 

541. Francis F. Curtis. Referred in 1891; loyalty found in 1905, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims for 14 years, wliich is evidence of 
laches; property taken in 1862; claim slept for at least 26 years 
before reference; never presented to any other department of the 
Government; laches. (H. 707, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

542. John C. Davis. Referred in 1895; loyalty found in 1907, 12 
years later, which is evidence of laches; property taken in 1861-62; 
John C. Davis did not own the land at the tinie, but held a mortgage 
upon it; he was not even in possession of the land; Congress in 1862 
refused to consider a bill for his relief; the Southern Claims Commis- 
sion rejected his claim and it then slept until 1895; laches. (H. 202, 
60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

543. Edward W. Donnelly. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 
1903; property taken in 1862-1864; claim slept until 1900, about 40 
years; laches. (H. 385, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

544. Lewis Ellison. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1860-1863; the decedent went through bank- 
ruptcy in 1869, which relieved him of his title to all property; claim 



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slept for 40 years without being presented to any department; laches. 
(S. 249, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

545. Robert Embrey. Referred in 1902; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken "during the war"; no date given, not even the year; 
claim slept 40 years without being presented to any department; 
laches. (H. 197, 58th Cong., 3d scss.) 

546. Henry Fitzhu^h. Referred in 1904; no loyalty fomid under 
this reference; it is claimed that loyalty was found under a former 
reference under the Bowman Act, under which reference the claim 
was rejected; use and occupancy occurred m 1862-1865 and occurred 
at the time of the two battles at Fredericksburg and was a necessity 
of war; the Southern Claims Commission rejected the claim because 
they were not satisfied as to the loyalty of claimant; a claim on 
the part of this claimant was referred under the Bowman Act in 1886 
and he was found loyal and the court allowed him $19,975 damages 
for personal property ; the court found under that reference that the 
tobacco for which he makes claim was not taken by authority or used 
by the United States, and he never made any claim for rent until the 
present claim, which was referred in 1904; the claim for rent slept for 
40 years and was not presented to any other department of the Gov- 
ernment; laches; the Court of Claim.s in the last reference found that 
the tobacco was not taken under authority or for the use of the Army, 
but that it was simply taken by various soldiers on their own account 
and each one for his individual use. (S. 116, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

547. John Flower. Referred in 1900; loyalty found m 1902; prop- 
erty taken in 1864, and claim slept for 36 years' after being presented; 
stores and supplies taken; laches. (S. 216, 57th Cong., 1st sess.) 

548. Noah Foltz. Referred in 1892; loyalty found in 1894; 
property taken in 1862; claim not brought on for trial until 1904, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claim.s for 12 years; claim slept for 30 
years before reference; not presented to any other department of the 
Government; laches. (H. 149, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

549. Capt. Nathaniel Fox. Referred in 1896; this is an ancient 
claim for half pay of a Revolutionary soldier contributed by the State 
of Virginia and claimed to have been assumed by the United States 
in the act of 1832; the claim is now presented by Richard Fox as the 
heir and residuary legatee of Capt. Nathaniel Fox; there is an absolute 
failure of proof on the part of claimant and the claim has slept for 
generations; laches and failure of proof. (H. 168, 55th Cong., 3d 
sess.) 

550. Joseph E. Funkhouser. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 
1910; property taken "during the war"; no dates given; claim slept 
for 40 years without being presented to any department of the 
Government; laches. (S. 565, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

551. Mary E. Gough. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; 
property taken "during the war"; claim slept for over 40 years before 
being presented to any department; laches. (S. 643, 60th Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

552. Isaac Haynes. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1910; 
property taken in 1862-63; referred in 1895 under the Bowman Act 
and dismissed for want of prosecution, which shows absolute want of 
faith and indifference on the part of claimant; came before the 
Southern Claims Commission on the application of one of the heirs, 
one who had no authority to represent the estate, which had not been 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 73 

administered upon or distributed; case was rejected; with these 
exceptions, claim slept for 44 years; laches. (S. 356, 61st Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

553. Mary Lutholtz. Referred in 1892; loyalty found in 1905, 13 
years later, during which time claim slept in the Court of Claims; 
property taken "during the war'' ; claim slept for over 25 years before 
reference and 13 years after reference and was not presented to any 
other department of the Government; laches. (H. 440, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

554. John McKimmy. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken "during the war"; no dates named; claim slept for 40 
years and was not presented to any other department; laches. 
(S. 31, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

555. Henry McWilhams. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1893, 
five years later, during which period it slept in the Court of Claims; 
property taken in 1862; slept 26 years before reference and not 
brought on to trial until 1904; slept 16 years after reference; laches. 
(H. 236, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

556. Lewis W. Mann. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1910; 
property taken "during the war"; no dates given, not even the year; 
claim slept for 45 years without reference to any other department 
of the Government; laches. (S. 433, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

557. Samuel Marsh. Referred m 1904; loyalty found in 1906; 
property taken in 1863; referred under the Bowman Act and rejected 
in 1888, because claimant could not recover under that reference; 
slept from 1888 to 1904, a period of 16 years, when it was referred 
the second time; in 1863 Edwin Ludlow, captain and assistant 
quartermaster. United States Army, at Norfolk, Va., gave a receipt 
to deceased claimant, Samuel Marsh, for lumber and brick; an item- 
ized statement was contained in the receipt, which said the amount 
was "to be paid at the close of the present war on proof of ownership 
and loyalty." Claimant could not make proof and failed under the 
first reference; the claim slept from 1863 to the first reference in 1888, 
26 years, and then failed; slept from 1888 to the second reference in 
1904, a period of 16 years; was not presented to the Southern Claims 
Commission and was barred by the act of 1871; laches. (S. 153, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

558. Alexander Myers. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1907; 
property taken "during the war" ; claim slept for over 40 years with- 
out being presented to anv department of the Government; laches. 
(H. 201, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

559. Elijah P. Myers. Referred m 1887; loyalty found in 1903, 16 
5'ears later; brought on for trial in 1905, 18 years after reference, 
during which time claim slept in the Court of Claims; property 
taken in 1862-1864; claim slept for 23 years before reference and 18 
years in the Court of Claims; not presented to any other department 
of the Government; laches. (H. 247, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

560. John S. Pendleton. Referred in 1896; loyalty found in 1902; 
property taken in 1863-64; claim slept for 40 years without being 
presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 226, 
59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

561. Alexander Poland. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1910 
and property was taken in 1863; claim slept for 45 years, except that 
it was referred in 1899 and afterwards was dismissed for want of 



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prosecution, thus showins; that the claimant was negligent, indiffer- 
ent, and had little faith in his claim; laches. (S. 450, 61st Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

562. Samuel K. Proctor. Keferred in 1896; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken in 1862-63; claim slept for over 42 3^ears without 
being presented to any department; laches. (H. 455, 59th C'ong., 
2d sess.) 

563. John Poland. Referred in 1903; loyalty found in 1905; prop- 
erty taken in 1862-1864; claim slept for 40 years without being pre- 
sented to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 152, 58th 
I ong., 3d sess.) 

564. Eliza J. Ricketts. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1904; 
claim slept for 42 years without being presented to any department; 
laches. (H. 629, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

565. Joseph W. Roberson. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 
1908; property taken in 1861-62; claim slept for 45 years without 
being presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 
956, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

566. Felix Richards. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1901; 
property taken in 1861-62; court finds that this claim was not pre- 
sented to the Southern Claims Commission under the act of 1871 and 
that it is barred; never presented to any other department of the 
Government until 1900; slept 38 years; laches. (S. 150, 56th Cong., 
2d sess.) 

567. Lewis A. Sherwood. Referred under the Bowman Act and 
dismissed for want of prosecution in 1901, which shows neglect, 
indifference, and no faith in the claim; referred again in 1904; loy- 
alty found in 1906; property taken in 1862-1864; claim slept for 40 
years without being presented to any department; laches. (S. 33, 
60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

568. Sarah G. Smith. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1905; 
property taken "during the war;" claim slept 40 years without being 
presented to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 122, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

569. James G. Taliaferro. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 
1902; property taken in 1862-63; claim slept for 40 years without 
being presented to any department; laches. (S. 69, 57th Cong., 2d 
sess.) 

570. John R. Taylor and Charles F. Taylor. Referred in 1900; 
loyalty found in 1902; property taken in 1863-1865; claim slept for 
35 years; court finds that claim is barred because not presented to 
the Southern Claims Commission under the act of 1871 ; another of 
these brothers was in the Rebel army ; one finds it difficult to believe 
that these two were actually loyal; laches. (S. 105, 57th Cong., 1st 
sess.) 

571. Robert Waters. Referred in 1890; loyalty found in 1904, 14 
years later, during which time the claim slept in the Court of Claims 
without being moved; property taken "during the Civil War;" claim 
slept for 35 years without being presented to any department; 
lacfies. (H. 121, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

572. Edward O. Watkins. Refererd in 1899; loyalty found in 
1906, 7 years later; property taken in 1864; claim slept for 35 years 
without being presented to anv department of the Government; 
laches. (H. 231, 59th Cong., 2d'^sess.) - 



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573. William G. Webber. Referred in 1898 ; loyalty found in 1912, 
14 years later, during which time claim slept in the Court of Claims; 
evidence of laches; property taken in 1864; claim slept for 34 37-ears 
before reference and 13 years after reference; laches. (H. 30, 59th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

574. Joshua White. Referred in 1907; loyalty not found; prop- 
erty taken in 1863; Southern Claims Commission found that Joshua 
White was not lo3^al; that he died in 1862; no administrator was 
appointed until 1863; claim slept for 44 years; laches and disloyalty. 
(H. 697, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

575. Joseph Williams. Referred in 1900; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken during the battle of Fredericksburg by Gen. Burnside; 
claim slept for 35 years before reference and was not presented to any 
department of the Government ; laches; a militar}^ necessity. (S. 29, 
58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

576. Michael Wine. Referred in 1891; loyalty found in 1902, 
11 years after reference, during which time claim slept in the Court 
of Claims; property taken ''during the war," no dates given, not 
even the 3^ear; claim slept for nearlj^ 40 years without being pre- 
sented to any department; laches. (H. 739, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

577. Fairfax Lodge No. 43, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of 
Culpeper. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1906; use and occu- 
pation "at various times" from 1862 to the close of the war; no 
description of the building is given nor any statement made as to its 
value; the nature of an^^ damage done to it is not suggested: claim 
slept for 40 years; a claim of $700 for rent, not accompanied b}' any 
finding showing the value, equality and character of the building, and 
nammg no specific term during wdiich it had been occupied further 
than a general statement that it was " at various times," is an exceed- 
ingly meager statement upon which to ask for an appropriation of 
$700. (S. 475, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

578. Trustees of Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4. Referred in 1906; 
loyalty found in 1908; use and occupation in 1862, in December; no 
length of time of occupation is given; the character and qualitj^ of the 
building is not shown; the character and nature of the damages are 
specified in a very general wa}" without going into details at all, as 
"the damages to the walls, furniture, fixtures, etc.;" it is impossible 
to ascertain whether the use and occupation was for one day, or one 
week, one ^'■ear, or five years; the claim slept for over 40 years, and 
the data is very scant upon which to ask for an appropriation of $610. 
(S. 558, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

579. Trustees of the Presbyterian Church, McDowell, Highland' 
County. This item is already in House bill H. R. 19115. (See line 21, 
p. 105; consequentlj^ lines 18 and 19, p. 110 should be stricken out.) 

580. Trustees of Salem Baptist Church, Clarke County. Referred 
in 1904; loyalty found in 1906; it is misleading to entitle this claim 
under the head of "trustees" of Salem Baptist Church, because the 
church organization appears to have no board of trustees; the peti- 
tion filed in the Court of Claims appears to have been made in behalf 
of one person only; for instance, the report of the claim returned by 
the Court of Claims refers to the petition in the following language: 

The claimant in his petition makes the following allegations: That he is a citizen 
of the United States and a resident of the county of Clarke, State of Virginia; that he 
is the duly elected, qualified, and acting trustee of Salem Baptist Church, Clarke 
County, Va. 



76 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

The name of this trustee, strange to say, does not appear, but the 
inference is plain from the language used that there is only one trustee 
who is assuming to represent this church and a strong impression is 
left upon one who reads the recitals in the report from the Court of 
Claims that some one individual is assuming to represent this church 
corporation. In his petition this trustee (whoever he may be) 
states that ' ' during the late Civil War" (without giving any particular 
dates, day, month, or year), the church building owned by the Salem 
Baptist Church was damaged by the military forces of the United 
States, who took possession of the building and used the material 
therefrom for building winter quarters; the Court of Claims makes 
the rather peculiar finding that the "reasonable value of the repairs 
made necessary by such damage was the sum of $600." It is difh- 
cult to understand how there could be any repairs if the building 
was destroyed and the material used in building winter quarters. If 
the building was destroyed and the materials used, the findings should 
have shown the value of the building, or at least the value of the 
materials. The petition of this man, who seems to be the only 
trustee, states that the military forces, "while camped near said 
building, removed therefrom materials which were used in the con- 
struction of winter quarters in and about their camps to the great 
damage of said building.-" It may be that the building was not 
completely destroyed, but that some of the materials were removed 
from it and used. At any rate, a very unsatisfactory showing is 
made and we are left in doubt as to whether or not this church is 
still in existence, and a suspicion arises that some one man, whose 
name does not appear, is assuming to represent, as a single trustee, 
this claim and that no board of trustees exists, and that possibly, if 
the appropriation is made, one individual will receive the benefit and 
appropriate it to his own use. (S. 330, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

West Virginia. 

581. William H. Bodkin. Referred in 1910 ; loyalty found in 1911 ; 
claim is for work done and services performed in 1863; it was rejected 
by the Quartermaster General under the act of July 4, 1864, because 
the proof submitted did not sustain the claim; it then slept for 46 
years and was not presented to any department of the Government; 
laches. (H. 47, 62d Cong., 1st sess.) 

582. Mary E. Buckey. Referred in 1897; loyalty found in 1906, 
after sleeping in the Court of Claims for 9 years without being moved; 
claim is for services as a nurse during the war and for the value of a 
horse and saddle; never presented to any department and slept for 
41 years; laches. (S. 467, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

583. John Cook. Referred in 1 901 ; loyalty found in 1907 ; property 
taken in 1862; the Commissioner General rejected the claim as 
unjust in 1864; claim slept for 37 years; laches. (H. 204, 60th 
Cong., 1st sess.) 

584. William Corrick. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1902; 
it is not shown why loyalty was found five years before reference; 
if under some former reference, the claim was abandoned under the 
same; property taken in 1861-62; it was rejected by the Quarter- 
master General in 1882 because the evidence was not sufficient to 
establish it; no receipt is produced for the property alleged to ha,ve 



LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 77 

been taken; with the exception of being presented to the Quarter- 
master General, claim seems to have slept for 45 years; laches; evi- 
dence too weak to sustain an appropriation at this time. (S. 33, 
61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

585. George W. Craig. Referred in 1901; loyalty found in 1904; 
property taken 1861-62; claim slept for 40 years and was not pre- 
sented to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 183, 58th 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

586. Jacob Crouch. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1903, 16 
years later; claim was not brought on for trial until 1904, after 
sleeping for 17 years in the Court of Claims, which shows indifference 
and want of faith on the part of claimant; property taken in 1861; 
stores and supplies; never presented to the Southern Claims Commis- 
sion and is barred; slept for 26 years before reference and 17 years 
after reference; laches. (H. 344, 58th Cong., 3d sess.) 

587. George Dickson. Referred in 1892; loyalty found under that 
reference, but the claim was abandoned; referred again in 1907; 
loyalty found in 1907; the record does not show when the property 
was taken; does not even state that it was taken "during the war"; 
presented to the Quartermaster General, but no proofs whatever 
were submitted; referred under the Bowman Act and then abandoned; 
no diligence is shown; laches. (S. 456, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

588. Samuel Fitz. Referred in 1909; loyalty found in 1910; prop- 
erty taken in 1863-64; referred under the Bowman Act in 1907 and 
abandoned; claim slept for 43 years without being presented to any 
department of the Government; laches. (S. 298, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

589. Jacob J. Foreman. Referred in 1910; loyalty found in 1911; 
property taken 1861-1864; never presented to any department of the 
Government and lay dormant for 46 years; stores and supplies; 
laches. (H. 324, 62d Cong., 2d sess.) 

590. George Font. Referred in 1888; loyalty found in 1908, after 
sleeping in the Court of Claims, which is evidence of indifference and 
want of good faith on the part of claimant; property taken in 1863; 
slept for 25 years before reference and 20 years after reference; 
never presented to any other department of the Government; laches. 
(H. 36, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

591. Lydia A. Hockensmith. Referred under the Tucker Act in 
1908; loyalty found in 1908; claim rejected by the Quartermaster 
General under the act of 1864, but was rejected on the gi-ound of no 
jurisdiction; was referred in 1902 under the Bowman Act and was 
dismissed for want of jurisdiction; was presented to the Third Audi- 
tor of the Treasury on May 3, 1880, and dismissed for want of juris- 
diction; it is a claim for use and occupation and rent, which occurred 
in 1862-1864 and the tribunals to which it was presented as above, 
and by which it was rejected, had no jurisdiction to allow claims for 
rent, so it appears; the use and occupation and rental value is proven; 
it does not appear to have been presented to the Quartermaster 
General. (S. 620, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

(Submit this to subcommittee.) 

592. Jacob W. Hudson. Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1909; 
property taken in 1864-65; stores and supplies; the Court of Claims 
finds that no stores and supplies were really taken, except a small 
item of hay, worth only $15; this claim slept for over 40 years without 



78 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

being presented to any department of the Government; laches. 
(H. 297, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

593. John McH. Kelly and Allie V. Kelly. Referred in 1906; loy- 
alty found in 1908; property taken in 1862-63; is for rent and stores 
and supplies; claim slept for 43 years without being presented to any 
department of the Government; laches. (H. 1198, 60th Cong., 2'd 
sess.) 

594. Joseph Laudermilk. Referred in 1906; loyalt}^ found in 1908; 
stores and supplies taken in 1864; claim presented to the Southern 
Claims Commission, after the statute of limitations had run against 
it; evidence that no diligence has been shown; slept for 44 years; 
laches. (H. 1146, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

595. Catharine S. Lucas. Referred in 1896; loyalty found in 1908, 
after slee]:>ing in the Court of Claims for 12 years; stores and supplies 
taken in 1 864 ; claim was rejected by the Quartermaster General under 
the act of 1864 because claimant was not able to prove loyalty; claim 
then slept for 32 years before reference and 12 years in the Court of 
Claims after reference; want of good faith and laches is shown. 
(H. 229, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

596. Oliver j\Iilbourn. First reference was in 1902, after which 
claim slept in the Court of Claims until 1907, a period of 5 years and 
was then dismissed for want of prosecution, which shows indifference 
and want of good faith; was referred again in 1907; loyalty found in 
1908; stores and supplies taken in 1864; because claimant was unable 
to make proof, slept for 43 years; laches. (S. 340, 60th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

597. Sarah Miller. Referred in 1908; loyalty found in 1910; 
stores and supplies taken "during the war;" no dates given, not even 
the year; claim slept without being presented to any department of 
the Government until 1908, at least 43 years; laches. (S. 459, 
61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

598. James W. Myers. Referred in 1892; loyalty found in 1893;" 
unfavorable fuidings made in 1891 ; findings were withdrawn in 1905; 
parties moved for a new trial, which was granted, seven years after the 
findings had been made against the claimant ; claim slept for 38 years 
before first reference; laches; general appearance suspicious and 
unsatisfactory. (H. 304, 59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

599. Alfred O'Bannon. Referred in 1887; loyalty found in 1889; 
not moved for trial until 1905, 18 years after reference, which shows 
indifference and lack of faith in the claim; stores and supplies taken 
"during the war;" no date, not even the year; claim slept about 25 
years before reference; not shown to have been presented to any 
department of the Government at any other time; laches. (H. 31, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

600. F. A. Roeder. Referred in 1905; loyalty found in 1906; use 
and occupation 1861-62 of certain buildings; claim slept for 43 years 
and not presented to any department of the Government until referred 
in 1905; laches. (S. 122, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

601. John Sharp. First referred in 1892 and claimant found loyal, 
but nothing further was done ; reference was under the Bowman Act ; 
referred again in 1907; the administrator of the estate of John Sharp 
is also administrator of the estate of George Dickson, and a claim as 
administrator of George Dickson is found in line 14, page 111, of the 
bill (H. R. 19115), in which a note has already been made of laches 



LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 79 

(see No. 586) as to the item of $99 for property on account of George 
Dickson; this claim is for stores and supplies taken from John Sharp, 
deceased, who was found loyal in 1908; stores and supplies taken, but 
the findings do not show any dates when they were taken; does not 
even state that they were taken during the war; claim was presented 
to the Quartermaster General under the act of July 4, 1864, but does 
not appear to have been allowed; was referred under the Bowman 
Act and nothing further was done under that reference ; does not ap- 
pear to have been presented to the Southern Claims Commission and 
was barred by the act of 1871; if we assume that the property was 
taken during the Civil War, the claim slept until 1907, a period of 42 
years; laches. (S. 455, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

602. Maria Shirley. Referred in'l903 ; loyalty found in 1 903 ; stores 
and supplies taken in 1862; claim slept for 41 years without being 
presented to any department of the Government; laches. (H. 209, 
59th Cong., 1st sess.) 

603. Joseph C. Smith. Referred in 1900 ; loyalty found in 1903 ; hay 
and oats alleged to have been taken in 1864; claim never presented to 
anv department of the Government, but slept for 36 years; laches. 
(H. 403, 59th Cong., 2d sess.) 

604. James M.Stephenson. Referred in 1904; loyalty found in 1905; 
corn taken in 1862; claim slept for 42 vears without being presented 
to any department of the Government; laches. (S. 91, 59th Cong., 
1st sess.) 

605. David Tuckwiller and Sarah Bettie Wilson. Referred first 
under the Bowman Act, and the court found that the executor of the 
last will and testament of David Taylor, deceased, was disloyal; these 
two heirs filed their claim under that reference and were shown to be 
loyal because of "tender years," but the claim was dismissed because 
not embraced within the resolution of reference; this claim was pre- 
sented to the Quartermaster General by the executor, but was rejected 
because the proof was insuflicient to establish the claim of lovalty 
under the act of July 4, 1864; referred under the Tucker Act in 1907; 
loyalty of the heirs, based upon "tender years," was found in 1908, 
but the executor was found disloyal; the property was taken from the 
executor in 1862; claim is bad, because loyalty not established and 
because of laches. (S. 621, 60th Cong., 2d sess.) 

606. Trustees Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Charles Town. 
Referred in 1906; loyalty found in 1906; this church was occupied 
by the United States military authorities on September 12, 1862; it 
was used as a depository of commissaries; upon the approach of the 
Confederate forces in the belligerent prosecution of the war, the 
Federal forces burned the church building for the purpose of destroy- 
ing the commissaries; the value of the buildmg was $5,500; the evi- 
dence does not show how long it was occupied for commissaries by 
the Union forces, whether for 24 hours or for 24 days or for 24 months 
does not appear; its destruction appears to have been an act of war 
as a result of military necessity; claim w^as never presented to any 
department of the Government, but slept for 44 years. (S. 326, 59tli 
Cong., 2d sess.) 

(Refer to subcommittee.) 

607. Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Huttonsville. Re- 
ferred in 1903; findings made in 1903, but the findings state "no 
evidence has been offered on the subject of loyalty, either of the church 



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or its trustees/' and no finding as to loyalty is made; the building 
was taken possession of "during the war"; no dates given, not even 
the year is given; there is nothing to show whether it was a brick 
building or a wooden building, its size, its age, or quality; torn down 
and material used; there is no finding of loyalty; it does not come 
under any rule by wliich an appropriation can be allowed. (S. 15, 
58th Cong., 1st sess.) 

608. Caledonia Lodge, No. 4, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
Shepherdstown. Referred in 1907; loyalty found in 1908; claim is 
for rent of lodge room used as a guardroom ''during the war"; no 
dates given, not even the year; the description, size, character, and 
quality of the room not given at all; the nature of the damages and 
repairs, if any, not shown nor specified. The findings do not show 
for how long a period the lodge room was occupied; claim was never 
presented to any department of the Government prior to 1907 and 
slept at least 45 years. (S. 294, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 



DIFFERENCE IN PAY CLAIMED BY CERTAIN 
OFFICERS OF THE CIVIL WAR. 



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DIFFERENCE IN PAY CLAIMED BY CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE 

CIVIL WAR. 

The following claims in H. R. 19115 are cases where officers in 
the Army serving during the Civil War make claims for certain dif- 
ferences in pay: 

John A. McLaughlin. Referred in 1909; finding filed January 24, 
1910. (S. 527, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

McLaughlin was appointed colonel of the Forty-seventh Regiment 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by the governor of Indiana, to rank 
from March 1, 1865. From that date and until mustered out as a 
lieutenant colonel November 1, 1865, he was in command of said 
regiment, except from May 26 to July 18, 1865, during which period 
he was in command of the First Brigade, First Division, Thirteenth 
Army Corps. The colonel of the Forty-seventh Regiment was dis- 
charged prior to March 1, 1865, and no person was mustered into 
service as his successor prior to November 1, 1865, because the 
Organization remained between said dates continuously below the 
minimum number fixed by law (12 Stat. L., p. 734, sec. 20), and regu- 
lations of the War Department. Said statute reads as follows: 

Whenever a regiment is reduced below the minimum number allowed by law, no 
officer shall be appointed in such regiment beyond those necessary for the command 
of such reduced number. Approved March 3, 1863. 

From March 1, 1865, to November 1, 1865, McLaughlin performed^ 
the duties of colonel of this regiment, except the period from May 26 
to July 18, a period of 53 days, during which he commanded the First 
Brigade. 

The Court of Claims finds: 

III. Excepting an overpayment of 13.51, claimant has been paid as of the grades 
held by him in said organization and has been paid as a lieutenant colonel from March 
1, to November 1, 1865, and he has been paid three month's extra pay on discharge 
as lieutenant colonel. 

The difference between the pay and allowances of a lieutenant 
colonel and colonel of Infantry for the period from March 1 to Novem- 
ber 1, 1865, inclusive, is $243.50, and the difference during the three 
months for which he received extra pay is $45, making a total of 
$288.50, from which should be deducted overpayment of $3.51, leav- 
ing a balance of $284.99. The difference in mcome tax for the same 
period is $9.64, and if the same is deducted the balance is $275.35. 

This claim was first presented to the War Department under the 
act of February 24, 1897, passed 32 years after McLaughlin was 
mustered out of the service, and was denied. It was then presented 
to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department and disallowed. 

Joint resolution of July 26, 1866. — In 1866 Congress passed a joint 
resolution, approved July 26 (14 Stat L., p. 368), as follows: 

In every case in which a commissioned officer actually entered on duty as such 
commissioned officer, but by reason of being killed in battle, captured by the enemy, 
or other cause beyond his control, and without fault or neglect of his own, was not 
mustered within a period of not less than thirty days, the Pay Department shall allow 

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84 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

to such officer full pay and emoluments of his rank from the date on which such officer 
actually entered on such duty as aforesaid, deducting from the amount paid in accord- 
ance with this resolution all pay actually received by such officer for such period. 

That the heirs and legal representatives of any officer whose muster into service has 
been or shall be amended hereby, shall be entitled to receive the arrears of pay due 
such officer or the pension provided by law for the grade into which such officer is 
mustered under the provisions of the first section of this resolution. 

Act of February 24, 1897 (29 Stat. L., p. 593): 

Any person who was duly appointed or commissioned to be an officer of the volunteer 
service under the War of the Rebellion, and who was subject to the mustering regula- 
tions at the time applied to members of the volunteer service, shall be held and 
considered to have been mustered into the service of the United States in the grade 
Bamed in his appointment or commission from the date from which he was to take 
rank under and by the terms of his said appointment or commission, whether the 
same was actually received by him or not, and shall be entitled to pay, emoluments 
and pension as if actually mustered at that date: Provided, That at the date from 
which he was to take rank by the terms of his said appointment or commission, there 
was a vacancy to which he could be appointed or commissioned and his command 
had either been recruited to the minimum number required by law and the regulations 
of the War Department, or had been assigned to duty in the field, and that he was 
actually performing the duties of the grade to which he was so appointed or com- 
missioned; or if not so performing such duties, then he shall be held and considered 
to have been mustered into service and to be entitled to the benefits of such muster 
from such time after the date of rank given in his commission as he may have actually 
entered upon such duties: Provided further , That any person held as a prisoner of war 
or who may have been absent by reason of wounds, or in hospital by reason of disability 
received in the service in line of duty, at the date of issue of his appointment or com- 
mission — if a vacancy existed for him in the grade to which so appointed or com- 
missioned — shall be entitled to all the benefits to which he would have been entitled 
under this act if he had been actually performing the duties of the grade to which ^ 
he was appointed or commissioned at said date: Provided further, That this act shall 
be construed to apply only to those cases where the commission bears date prior to 
June 20, 1863, or after that date when the commands of the persons appointed or 
commissioned were not below the minimum number required by then existing laws 
and regulations: And provided further , That the pay and allowances actually received 
for the period covered by the recognition extended under this act shall be deducted 
from the sums otherwise to be paid thereunder. 

Sec. 2. The heirs or legal representatives of any person whose muster into ser\dce 
shall be recognized and established under the terms of this act shall be entitled to 
receive the arrears of pay and emoluments due and the pension, if any, authorized 
by law, for the grade to which recognition shall be so extended. 

Sec. 3. The pay and allowance of any rank or grade paid to and received by any 
military or naval officer in good faith for services actually performed by such officer 
in such rank or grade dui-ing the War of the Rebellion, other than as directed in the 
fourth proviso of the first section of this act, shall not be charged to or recovered back 
from such officer because of any defect in the title of such officer to the office, rank, 
or grade in which such services were so actually performed. 

Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, 
and the same are hereby, repealed. 

DECISION BY COURT OF CLAIMS AND SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED 

STATES. 

The right of such officers to "difference in pay" under the joint 
resolution of 1866 has been determined in the Court of Claims and 
in the Supreme Court of the United States. The following shows 
the position of the Court of Claims taken in the case of Lieut. Henry 
(6C. Cls.,p. 162): 

A company in the Second Ohio Volunteers, during the War of the Rebellion, becornes 
reduced below the minimum entitling it to a second lieutenant. The claimant being 
first sergeant of that company, and the office of second lieutenant being vacant, is 
commissioned as such by the governor of Ohio. He is also assigned to duty in that 
company by the colonel of the regiment. He applies to be mustered in, but the 
mustering officer refuses. Nevertheless he remains on duty, being the only com- 



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missioned officer with the company, commanding it several times in battle, incurring 
all the responsibilities and performing all the duties of a commissioned officer. The 
Pay Department refuses to pay him except as first sergeant. 

The Court of Claims held that under the above state of facts Henry 
was entitled to pay as a second lieutenant, and rendered judgment in 
his behalf. 

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. 

The Government appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the 
United States and it affirmed the decision of the Court of Claims, 
Mr. Justice MUler writing the opinion. (United States v. Henry, 17 
Wallace, 405.) 

The second proviso in the act of February 24, 1897, above quoted, 
provides — 

That this act shall be considered to apply only to those cases where the commissions 
bear date prior to January 20, 1863, or after that date, when the commands of the 
persons appointed or commissioned were not below the minimum required by the 
existing laws and regulations. 

The commission to McLaughlin was issued after January 20, 1863, 
to wit, on March 1, 1865, and durmg the time he held his commission 
as colonel his command remained continuously below the minimum 
number allowed by law. 

The act approved April 19, 1910 (36 Stat. L., pp. 312, 324), an act 
making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy, etc., 
3ontains the following provision, which is the last paragraph of the 
act (p. 324) : 

Hereafter in administering the act of Congress, approved February 24, 1897, entitled 
"An act to provide for the relief of certain officers and enlisted men of the Volunteer 
forces," the decision of the War Department as to the right of any person to be held 
and considered to have been mustered into the service of the United States under 
the provisions of said act shall be conclusive and no claims shall be allowed or con- 
sidered after the 1st day of January, 1911. 

All claims for difference in pay coming in the class to which this 
claim belongs are governed by the adverse decision of the Court of 
Claims rendered in the case of Frances Acker v. The United States, 
filed January 16, 1911, and reported in 46 Court of Claims Reports, 
page 63. 

The report of that case states the following facts: 

John AV. Acker was duly appointed first lieutenant Company I, Fifty-second Illi- 
nois Infantry, and on or about the 24th day of October, 1864, he entered upon and 
performed all the duties of said grade or rank under his appointment or commission, 
but he was denied the pay and allowances thereof because of the prohibition con- 
tained in General Orders of the War Department, No. 182, of date June 20, 1863, based 
on section 20 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1863. (12 Stat. L., 734.) 

An application for recognition as of said grade was duly presented to the Secretary 
of War, and a claim for compensation for said service was duly presented to the proper 
accounting officers of the Treasury under the provisions of the act of Congress approved 
February 24, 1897, and was considered and rejected by them on the ground that the 
third proviso expressly excludes from its benefits cases where the commission bears 
date subsequent to June 20, 1863, when the command was reduced below the mini- 
mum strength by the casualties oi' war, and that the claimant's case was not covered 
by any existing law. The claim was referred to the Court of Claims May 22, 1908, 
under the Tucker Act of 1887. 

In its opinion by Atkinson, J., the Court of Claims says: 

These so-called "minimum pay" cases are based upon claims made by men who 
were appointed or commissioned by the governors of various States during the late 
Civil War as Volunteer Army officers, pay being demanded by them from the date 



86 LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 

of their respective appointments or commissions, while the War Department decides 
that their pay should not begin until they were regularly mustered into the Volunteer 
Army by an officer of that department duly authorized to perform such ser\dce, after 
the organizations had reached the minimum enrollments required by law and the 
Army Regulations. The rate of pay claimed in each case is based upon the grade 
of the officer from the date of his appointment or commission, without reference to 
the date of his muster into the Volunteer service. Evidence was introduced tending 
to prove actual service as first lieutenant during the time for which pay is claimed, 
and the court is asked to make findings to that effect. 

The act of February 24, 1897 (29 Stat., 593), makes provision for the pay of this class 
of ofiicers, but limits it to such as can come within some of its provisions. The claim- 
ant made application for payment under that law and was refused upon the decision 
of the War Department that he did not come within the provisions above mentioned; 
hence the reference to this court. 

The act of Congress of April 19, 1910 (36 Stats., 312, 324), provides 
as follows: 

Hereafter in administering the act of Congress approved February 24, 1897, enti- 
tled (etc.) * * * the decision of the War Department as to the right of any per- 
son to be held and considered to have been mustered into the service of the United 
States under the provisions of said act, shall be conclusive, and no claims shall be 
allowed or considered under said act after the 1st of January, 1911. 

It will thus be seen that, in terms which can not be misconstrued, the decision of 
the War Department is made final in this class of cases, and this court is without juris- 
diction to find to the contrary, no matter what the character and weight of the evi- 
dence presented may be. 

It follows from the foregoing that the decision of the War Department in this case 
and all other like cases must be regarded as final and conclusive. 

John J. Nolan. Referred in 1909; findings dated April 4, 1910. 
(S. 525, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

Claimant received his commission as second lieutenant from the 
governor of the State of New Hampshire June 22, 1864. From that 
date until he was mustered out, January 6, 1865, his company was 
continuously below the minimum. 

Hiram F. Deval. Referred in 1909; findings filed Februarv 28, 
1910. (S. 526, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

Colonel of the Thirty sixth Ohio Volunteers was killed September 
19, 1863. On that day the governor of Ohio issued a commission as 
colonel to Lieut. Col. Hiram F. Deval. 

From September 19, 1863, to March 19, 1864, his command was 
below the minimum; but he performed the duties of colonel. It then 
arose to minimum, and he was mustered in as colonel. 

In question: Pay from September 19, 1863, to March 19, 1864. 

The following other cases in H. R. 19115 are in the same status as 
the above two: 

CALIFORNIA. 

1. Joseph M. Clark, H. 241, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

2. Wilford Cubbage, H. 394, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

3. Richard N. Doyle, H. 272, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

4. Andrew J. Guilford, H. 117, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

5. John H. Howe, H. 258, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

COLORADO. 

6. Lewis B. Brasher, H. 1491, 60th Cong., 2d sess. 

7. James W. Hanna, H. 585, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

8. Vv^illiam B. Palmer, H. 264, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

9. George T. Shackelford, H. 266, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 



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CONNECTICUT. 



10. James F. Brown, H. 255, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

11. James E. Hubbell, H. 243, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

12. Charles H. Simmons, H. 464, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



13. Harrison L. Deam,.H. 252, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

14. John T. Deweese, H. 290, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

15. Benjamin F. Hasson, H. 302, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 



16. Joseph D. Hazzard, H. 277, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 



17. Edwin A. Bowen, H. 579, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

18. Andrew L. Carter, H. 632, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

19. Bennett Depenbrock, H. 396, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

20. Thomas O. Eddins, H. 274, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

21. Benjamin F. Ely, H. 493, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

22. James P. Files, H. 518, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

23. Benjamin S. Ford, H. 222, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

24. William T. Glenn, H. 298, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

25. William Hanna, H. 257, 60th Cong.,"lst sess. 

26. Theodore S. Loveland, H. 393, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

27. Orrin L. Mann, H. 578, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

28. John E. MuUaly, H. 300, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

29. William A. Schmitt, H. 296, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

30. Pleasant S. Scott, H. 677, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

31. John H. Stibbs, H. 267, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

32. William Stubbs, H. 265, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 



33. Lewis J. Blaii-, H. 253, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

34. Thomas M. Browne, H. 283, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

35. Samuel E. Calvert, S. 528, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

36. William G. Dudley, H. 256, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

37. Russell P. Finney, H. 570, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

38. John W. Poland, "H. 289, 60th Cong.,' 1st sess. 

39. Andrew G. Gorrell, H. 110, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

40. Silas Grimes, H. 275, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

41. John W. Headington, H. 259, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

42. Nimrod Headington, S. 530, 61st Cong., 2d sess. 

43. Hiram Hines, H. 286, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

44. Joseph P. Leslie, H. 248, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

45. John D. Longfellow, H. 629, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

46. Cyrus J. McCole, H. 263, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

47. Leonard H. Mahan, H. 262, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

48. Ernest C. North, H. 220, 59th Cong., '2d sess. 

49. Robert W. Pemberton, H. Ill, 59th Cong , 1st sess 

50. John W. Sale, H. 268, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

51. Joseph D. Wyatt, H. 223, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 



52. Hiram Atkinson, H. 293, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

53. Charles C. Bauman, H. 775, 61st Cong., 2d sess. 

54. Newell B. Dana, H. 242, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

55. Henry Green, H. 297, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

56. Paris P. Henderson, H. 279, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

57. Michael Houps, H. 287, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

58. John Paul Jones, H. 294, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

59. Hamilton L. Karr, H. 630, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 



88 LIST OF WAE CLAIMS. 

60. Basil D. Mowery, H. 592, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

61. James A. Poor, H. 158, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

62. August Schlapp, H. 118, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

63. George A. Smith, H. 757, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

64. Abram Treadwell, H. 469, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

KANSAS. 

65. James P. Barnett, H. 587, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

66. Frank Crathorne, H. 586, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

67. Charles H. Haynes, H. 676, 60th Cong., Ist sess. 

68. Fenelon B. Matthews, H. 104, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

69. Edmund Metz, H. 126, 60th Cong., Ist sess. 

70. Martin V. B. Sheaf or, H. 295, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

71. William H. Sparrow, H. 588, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

72. Jacob Samuel Weaver, H. 113, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

KENTUCKY. 

73. Samson M. Archer, H. 462, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

74. William A. Attersall, H. 461, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

75. Andrew S. Bloom, H. 675, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

76. Valentine S. Brewer, H. 116, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

77. Thomas P. Coldwell, H. 109, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

78. Nathaniel B. Dobbs, H. 107, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

79. Alexander Magruder, H. 106, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

80. Hubbard K. Milward, H. 103, 59th Cong., 1st sesa. 

81. Zachariah A. Morgan, H. 157, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

82. Jesse S. Munday, H. 301, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

83. Ion B. Nail, H. 114, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

84. John W. Bobbins, H. 463, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

85. Jesse C. Speak, H. 465, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

86. Benjamin R. Waller, H. 459, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

87. John F. Wells, H. 468, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

88. William J. Worthington, H. 470, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 



89. Jacob B. Loring, H. 246, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

90. Whitman L. Orcutt, H. 581, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

91. William L. Ross, H. 219, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

92. William W. Dutcher, H. 273, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

93. William B. Kimball, H. 245, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

94. Nathaniel Shatswell, H. 218, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

MICHIGAN. 

95. William M. Begole, H. 589, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

96. Lemuel C. Canfield, H. 631, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

97. William A. Clark, H. 517, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

98. James S. De Land, H. 270, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

99. Ebenezer Gould, H. 547, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

100. Judson H. Gregg, H. 571, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

101. Frederick S. Hutchinson, S. 529, 61st Cong., 2d sess. 

102. George Lockley, H. 249, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

103. Elisha R. Swain, H. 325, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

MINNESOTA. 

104. Omar H. Case, H. 583, 59th Cong.. 2d sess. 

105. Frederick Lambrecht, H. 280, 60th Cong.. 1st sess. 

106. Warren Onan, H. 279, 60th Cong., Ist sess. 



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107. John Bagg, H. 254, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

108. William C. Briimmett, H. 628, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

109. Joseph C. Grissom, H. 590, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

110. John R. Hamacher, H. 285, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

111. Thomas James, H. 568, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

112. Benjamin F. Lutman, H. 458, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

113. Andrew J. Neff, H. 591, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

MONTANA. 

114. James E. Calloway, H. 582, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

NEBRASKA. 

115. Columbus P. French, H. 584, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

116. Michael Trucks, H. 595, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

117. Eleazer L. Sarsons, H. 594, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

NEW JERSEY. 

118. John H. Arey, H. 221, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

NEW MEXICO. 

119. William J. Littell, H. 156, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

NEW YORK. 

120. Luther S. Biyaut, H. 240, 60th Cong.. 1st sess. 

121. George Campbell, H. 291, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

122. John Fiyer, H. 288, 60th Cong.. 1st sess. 

123. Theodore Hoes, H. 260, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

124. Harrison Lockwood, H. 247, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

125. Andrew J. McNett, H. 678, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

126. Martin H. Mullin, H. 575, 60th Cone., 1st sess. 

127. Lucius V. S. Mattison, H. 303, 60th Cong.. 1st sess. 

128. Hamilton S. Preston, H. 278, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

129. Allen Sheldon, H. 250, 60th Cong.. 1st sess. 

NORTH DAKOT.i. 

130. James W. Mullery, H. 460, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

OHIO. 

131. Henry L. Biddle, H. 282, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

132. Charles W. Clancy, H. 292, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

133. John Hamilton, H. 572, 60th Cong., ist sess. 

134. Barton A. Holland, H. 397, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

135. George W. Northup, H. 456, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

136. David Skeeles, H. 596, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

137. James R. Smith, H. 108, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

OKLAHOMA. 

138. George W. Clark, H. 269, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

139. John's. Cozine, H. 105, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

OREGON. 

140. John E. Butler, H. 395, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 



90 LIST OF WAR CLAIMS. 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

141. James Ashworth, H. 466, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

142. John H. Black, H. 115, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

143. John Craig, H. 580, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

144. John A. Banks, H. 271, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

145. Frank E. Foster, H. 112, 59th Cong., 1st sess. 

146. John Houston, H. 299, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

SOUTH DAKOTA. 

147. John B. Geddis, H. 276, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

TENNESSEE. 

148. John Hughes, H. 244, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

149. Richard M. Johnson, H. 573, 60th Cong., 1st ^ess. 

VERMONT. 

150. John J. Dale, H. 569, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

VIRGINIA. 

151. Solomon P. Brockway, H. 281, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

WASHINGTON. 

152. Joseph Hinson, H. 284, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

WISCONSIN. 

153. Irving V. Bliss, H. 251, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

154. Ole Jacobson, H. 574, 60th Cong., 1st sess. 

155. Hiram F. Lyke, H. 467, 59th Cong., 2d sess. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

In the following cases, involving claims for pay in connection mtk 
military service, each case is based upon its peculiar facts as stated: 

Myron C. Bond. Referred in 1903; findings made May 6, 1909. 
(S. 24, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 

Findings show that claimant was enrolled as second lieutenant of 
Company B, Thirty-first Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and mustered 
into the military service of the United States on May 8, 1898. On 
account of promotions the position of first lieutenant became vacant 
and the governor of Michigan issued a commission as first lieutenant 
to claimant on March 13, 1899, and he performed the services of first 
lieutenant until he was mustered out at Savannah on May 17, 1899. 
He was never mustered into the service of the United States as a 
first lieutenant of this company. The mustering officers refused to 
recognize his commission. 

No good. 

Guy M. Claflin. Referred on January 6, 1903; findmgs dated 
March 29, 1909. (H. 23, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 
Same as Myron C. Bond. 
No good. 

Edwin A. Wells. Referred January 6, 1903; findings made March 
29, 1909. (H. 25, 61st Cong., 1st sess.) 
Same as Myron C. Bond. 
No good. 



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Willard H. Greene. Referred in 1905; findings made November, 
15, 1909. (S. 167, 61st Cong., 2d sess.) 

Findings show that claimant was enrolled in the military service on 
September 26, 1862, for nine months and was mustered in as a private 
in Company E, Twelfth Regiment Rhode Island Infantry Volunteers, 
October 13, 1862, at Providence, R. I., and mustered out with said 
company as a private July 29, 1863. 

From November 3, 1862, to July 9, 1863, claimant was transferred 
to and was on duty with Battery I, New York Light Artillery Vol- 
unteers, as hospital steward and as hospital attendant, at the expira- 
tion of which time he was ordered to rejoin the Twelfth Rhode Island 
Infantry. He was paid as a private while doing work as a hospital 
steward and attendant and in addition received additional pay of 
25 cents per day on account of his work in these capacities. He 
claims that he performed the duties of an assistant surgeon and 
medical officer, the pay for which would have been $701.26. 

No good. 

George A. Smith. Referred m 1907; findings made February 25, 
1908. (H. 757, 60th Cong., 1st sess.) 

Findings show that claimant was a major brigade surgeon, United 
States Volunteers, during the War with Spain at a salary of $208.33 
per month up to and including September 30, 1898; was taken with 
typhoid fever at Chickamauga Park and on September 16, 1898, was 
granted 30 days sick leave and went to his home at Clinton, Iowa. 
On September 20, 1898, while he was on his sick leave, the War 
Department issued an order discharging him from service, to take 
effect September 30, 1898. He was not able to resume his practice 
or work until December 1, 1898, and he wants pay from September 
30, 1898, to December 1, 1898. 

No good. 

Horace P. Williams. Referred in 1901 ; findings made January 10, 
1905. (H. 211, 59th Cong., 3d sess.) 

Findings show that claimant was commissioned July 14, 1863, by 
the governor of Massachusetts as major of the Fifty-sixth Massa- 
chusetts Veteran Infantry, but does not appear to have ever been 
mustered as major of said regiment; was discharged March 4, 1864, 
by resignation on account of sickness. Does not appear to have ever 
performed the duties of major of said Fifty-sixth Massachusetts at all. 

He was detailed as superintendent of the recruiting service on July 
15, 1863, but it does not appear by whom he was so detailed. 

He performed said service at headquarters in Boston until Novem- 
ber 24, 1863, at which time he went on duty as a commandant and 
recruitmg officer. The service which he performed as recruiting offi- 
cer was in appointing lieutenants to their field of duty and instructing 
them. This service was performed in the towns and cities in the 
vicinity of Boston. He never received pay for said service. He 
applied to the War Department and was told there was no law by 
which he could be paid. Claimant was never mustered into the serv- 
ice of the United States. When the regiment was mustered, he was 
sick and not present. While a ''recruiting officer," he helped to or- 
ganize and equip men in camp. His claim slept until 1889, 26 years, 
but could not be considered. A bill for his relief was introduced in 
the Fifty-sixth Congress. 



92 LIST OP WAS CLAIMS. 

While a "recruiting officer " he made reports daily to the command- 
ing officer, Col. C. E. Griswold. He made daily reports of the men 
in camp. He left the camp on January 7, 1864, relieved of command 
then on account of sickness, but not discharged until March 4, 1864. 
The regiment was mustered in on the 25th day of February, 1864. 
After being mustered in the rate of pay for a major was $208.33 per 
month. 

This is no claim against the United States. It is a matter for the 
State of Massachusetts. 

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